infosecurity

“Double nonfat soy vanilla latte”
“Give me a soy macchiato… No, make that a soy caramel macchiato”
“A triple long extra pump white mocha, please”

Huh? Has commonIT started a side business training future baristas? No, it’s the guys practising their Starbucks jargon for the upcoming invasion of the American market.

OK, we’re not quite there yet. But when John Dunn, Security editor at TechWorld (a leading UK IT news site) interviewed Dan and David about Virtual Browser release 1.0, the news was quickly duplicated to Network World, probably the most widely read news source (print and online) among IT professionals in the US. And thanks to the miracle of news syndication the same story reaches a different audience, more Web 2.0, in The Industry Standard.

All of which provides a welcome boost in visibility in the run-up to the Infosecurity Europe show in London, April 28th to 30th — come by and see us on the French Pavilion, stand N65.

And here in Lyon, “un café” is the only phrase you’ll need to learn for your daily dose of caffeine.

This week, we visited the Infosecurity show in Paris where we sat up a large number of meetings with potential customers, journalists and analysts working in the IT security field.

The main goal was to feedback and validation from the market on our vision, our speech and the “Virtual Browser” solution. The result exceeded our expectations: absolutely ALL the people we met were very positive about the approach and the solution; a certain number of pilot projects have to be planned at customers premises; journalists and analysts confirm that the market is realizing the security risks of web browsers and that security vendors have to work on this topic (Solange Belkhayat-Fuchs, Chief Editor of cnis-mag told us “2009 will be the year of the web browser”). This really is a good news !

We had some fears about the famous “Time to market” - is it too early to launch the “Virtual Browser” solution? These two days proved us that the timing is just perfect. In short, very promising first contacts…