Stripe hires Niels Provos away from Google to be its new head of security

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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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