Last week StillSecure had our first presence at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. This, right on the heels of our week at Black Hat in Las Vegas, the week prior. Overall both events were hugely successful for us and getting the word out about Cobia.
LinuxWorld has a much different feel (not different - bad, just different) than Black Hat. Networking and security are subtopics at LW, as you can imagine, but still very topical all the same. BH of course is intensely about security, so on the whole both conferences were very good venues to discuss Cobia and StillSecure's security products, Safe Access, Strata Guard and VAM.
We were joined by Cobia user advocates, such as Glenn Kelly from Vine Hosting (www.vinehosting.com), who brought a unique viewpoint of someone who is deploying and running Cobia every day in his customers' networks. We had lots of opportunities to talk with many who have already downloaded Cobia and are using it or testing it in their networks. Leslie, a StillSecure UI designer from our user interface design team, also met with several attendees to do product testing on UI screens for current and future Cobia modules. FYI - If this is something you would like to participate in (many people are surprised at how much of their feedback makes it into our UI designs), we'd love to include you in our product design process. Product testing is something we do constantly, but I digress... And of course the StillSecure marketing team did a bang up job for both events, including our highly popular "Cisco hates my network" and "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas... unless you catch a virus" t-shirts. I think every Cisco competitor, and a few current Cisco employees, dropped by to ask for a t-shirt. (If you want one, drop me an email with shirt size and mailing address.)
Overall, two great conferences for StillSecure's Cobia. Most importantly, we had lots of opportunities to meet and interact with current and future Cobia users. Thanks to our customers and partners who dropped by to say hello, and thanks to everyone for stopping by!
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