https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/17/stripe-hires-niels-provos-away-from-google-to-be-its-new-head-of-security/
By Ingrid Lunden
Techcrunch
Oct 17, 2018
On the heels of raising new funding on a $20 billion valuation, payments
and financial services startup Stripe is making a key hire to reinforce
its message to the world that it’s taking security of its cloud-based
services seriously. Today the company is announcing that it has hired
Niels Provos as its new head of security. Provos was most recently a
distinguished engineer at Google, where he has led some of the search
giant’s biggest efforts to make its service secure, perhaps most famously
Safe Browsing, but also more recently Google Cloud Platform and Google’s
production infrastructure.
He’s also a well known cryptographer and researcher that has had a big
impact on other projects aimed at improving internet security, such as
bcrypt, honeyd, and OpenSSH. He's also a blacksmith who makes swords and
knives (another kind of security tool, I suppose).
From what I understand, Provos had been talking to Stripe about the job
for a while before leaving Google.
"Over the last twenty years, I have applied myself to improving and
advancing the security of the Internet not only for billions of users but
also for businesses who are in critical need of a secure foundation," he
said in a statement. "I believe that what Google was to search, Stripe
will be to commerce: global infrastructure that’s remaking what's possible
online. I am really excited to join Stripe's excellent security team and
to work with them helping businesses running on Stripe improve their
security as well."
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