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Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 13)
To conclude our interview, we discuss current events in the marketplace as well as the current and future expectations of Tumbleweed. SM: Why Tumbleweed at this stage of the game? TE: I love the consulting lifestyle because I can work with so many companies at a time. It is very entertaining, but you never actually
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 12)
Taher and I continue our discussion of the security marketplace, and Taher’s vision for Tumbleweed’s product roadmap, as the company takes on its turnaround challenge. SM: Can you explain the rational of Cisco acquiring IronPort? TE: Cisco wants to go upstream. They have a lot of infrastructure equipment, and they are working on the self-defending
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 11)
In our next segment of the interview, we examine the security marketplace and where things stand today. We take a close look at the open problems, and where, according to Taher, the market is headed. SM: Secure email is a very difficult space with Microsoft and everybody else. TE: We do not really compete with
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 10)
Next we move on to trace Taher’s work after Securify, which is currently back to being a private company, with $9.5 M revenue in 2006 revenue, having achieved 339% growth last year. SM: Who is running Securify today? TE: The CEO is Buck French. He was actually an investor in the company from JP Morgan
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 9)
A rather short venture for Taher results in some very impressive results. Here he details the sale of Securify. SM: You are saying you have an expert system which knows what behavior patterns are are allowed, and if the patterns match those heuristics it is OK? TE: I don’t like the word expert system because
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 8)
Taher addresses some of the unexpected impacts of the growth of the Internet, and the impact this had on network design. These thoughts lead into the development of Securify. SM: What were you doing with Securify? TE: That was mid 1998, and it was an attempt to make networks work correctly knowing the entities you
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 7)
Taher continues the discussion regarding the development of SSL at Netscape, and then moving on to his next startup. SM: What did you have to do to the SSL algorithm? TE: It had security issues that needed to be fixed. It really had to be bullet proof for eCommerce. SM: It had holes? TE: Just
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 6)
Taher was also one of the key individuals associated with the development of SSL at Netscape. In this episode, we discuss the genesis of that work. SM: Why did you leave when the company was just taking off? TE: I got bored. When I told Jim I got bored, and he told me I could