Month: August 2013

Interns Wanted

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Our CloudPassage team is growing and I’m looking for 3 interns in the Bay Area to come work with me for a semester to help make our award winning product a bit better. This is an excellent, and paid, opportunity to work with the hottest cloud security startup. Here is what I’m looking for:

Internship #1:
We are looking for a Security Integration Developer intern who loves to build tools to enhance our award-winning Halo product. Our product is not only known for its depth of security technology but also for its comprehensive breadth of capabilities that include software vulnerability reporting, software configuration management, file integrity monitoring, server access and dynamic host-based firewall management — each specifically built for cloud computing. The intern would be responsible for developing tools and scripts to help our customers integrate with our flagship product, Halo, build custom tools to help win sales opportunities, and internal tools to automate security policy content creation.

Internship #2:
We are looking for a Security Content Analyst intern who loves to analyze requirements and create security policies (content) for our award-winning Halo product. Our product is not only known for its depth of security technology but also for its comprehensive breadth of capabilities that include software vulnerability reporting, software configuration management, file integrity monitoring, server access and dynamic host-based firewall management — each specifically built for cloud computing. Developing policy templates for these core services will be your focus. We support both Linux and Windows operating systems and their applications, therefore a broad knowledge of best practices and compliance requirements for securing these systems is a must have skill.

Internship #3:
We are looking for a Security Vulnerability Analyst intern who loves to analyze current and past CVEs for various Linux and Windows operating systems that are hosted in private or public cloud infrastructures. The analyst’s results will directly feed into our award-winning Halo product to improve our customers’ ability to manage know vulnerabilities in their cloud-based infrastructure. The analyst will also help QA our Halo Software Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) module as well as other security modules as requested. This is an excellent opportunity to have an impact on the security community in general and to help CloudPassage customers directly.

If you’re interested, are currently a student, and live in the Bay Area, please send an email to:

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NGINX adds commercial edition

nginx_200According to GigaOm, the NGINX web server, which has been adopted by a growing number of users and currently challenges Microsoft for the number two spot, is now going commercial with a new NGINX Plus release. “The commercial version wraps new features including advanced monitoring, application health checks and dynamic configuration and management around a Service Level Agreement” said Nginx Inc. CEO Gus Robertson.

Though GigaOm reports that the price for the new offering is a surprisingly high $1,350 per instance per month, the NGINX website tells a different story. As you can see from the NGINX Plus page the price of the new edition is $1,350 per year for standard support and $2,700 per year for premium support.

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In my opinion, this was an inevitable move for the company. NGINX raised its first $3m round in 2011 from e.ventures, Runa Capital, and MSD Capital and investors eventually want to see some ROI (I know, right?). I mean Netcraft rankings are good and all, but it doesn’t put money back into the VC pockets.

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