Neil Cook

Neil Cook
PowerDNS Head of Product

Recent Posts

Productivity | Data Privacy & Open Internet

How can businesses go about drawing up guidelines to protect consumer privacy in the IoT age?

Companies like Google, Amazon and Cisco as well as a raft other companies (it seems like every company has to have an IOT play these days), have based whole business models on selling connected devices that perform functions such as monitoring your...

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Neil Cook Aug 16, 2016

Security | Email

Going public with our new bug bounty program

I have some really exciting news this week, which I’ve been wanting to share for a while. The Open-Xchange group of companies, including PowerDNS and Dovecot, now have public bug bounty programs hosted on hackerone. These programs have actually been...

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Neil Cook Aug 8, 2016

Productivity | Security | Email

Considering using Infrastructure as a Service? Why Dovecot’s Encryption of Data at Rest is a Must Have

Today I want to talk about encryption again. Previously I’ve blogged about the benefits of transport encryption, particularly for protecting emails from man-in-the-middle snooping or mass surveillance, which is something we’re encouraging through the...

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Neil Cook Jul 20, 2016

Events

OX Dispatches: M3AAWG meeting in Philadelphia By Neil Cook, Chief Security Architect Open-Xchange

I have just returned from the Messaging, Mobile and Malware Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) meeting in Philadelphia. Despite the long-winded title, the M3AAWG event is actually short on rhetoric, instead focusing on practical solutions to the problems...

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Neil Cook Jun 17, 2016

Security | Email

Responsible Disclosure for better Security

Here at Open-Xchange, as you would expect, we take security very seriously. In order to provide safe and reliable software for our customers and their users we believe security vulnerabilities must be handled with high priority and communicated very...

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Neil Cook Jun 6, 2016

Data Privacy & Open Internet

OX Despatches: RSA 2016 – Key Trends and Takeaways

As RSA 2016 came to a close in San Francisco last week, I wanted to highlight a few of the key trends that I picked up on at the Expo and during the conference sessions.

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Neil Cook Mar 7, 2016

Data Privacy & Open Internet

OX Despatches: RSA 2016 – Authentication & Authorization

By Neil Cook, Chief Security Architect Open-Xchange – Read Part 2 of Neil’s Despatches here

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Neil Cook Mar 4, 2016

Data Privacy & Open Internet

OX Despatches: RSA 2016 – Cryptography & Open-Source Security

By Neil Cook, Chief Security Architect Open-Xchange – Read Part 1 of Neil’s Despatches here

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Neil Cook Mar 3, 2016

Data Privacy & Open Internet

OX Despatches: RSA 2016 – Authenticate & Identify

I write, from the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, on the topic of Authentication and Identity, or as one speaker put it: turning people into the 1s and 0s that represent their identity.

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Neil Cook Mar 1, 2016

Data Privacy & Open Internet | Events

Google: TLS is not enough

We welcome Google’s announcement that they will be making secure email transport information available to users. Securing internet services, and particularly email, from pervasive monitoring by governments and criminals is vital to maintaining public...

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Neil Cook Feb 12, 2016