In this Spotlight Podcast*, Philippe Courtot of the firm Qualys discusses being an early innovator in the software as a service space and how the market for cloud based security services has evolved since he launched his firm, Qualys, almost two decades ago.  If you walked the trade show floor at last week’s RSA Conference as I did, it is easy to forget that cloud-based security used to be considered so far out as to occupy the realm of science fiction. As recently as 10 years ago, many otherwise sophisticated firms were of the opinion that, no matter the benefits the cloud bestowed on= other business functions, security was a bridge too far. Philippe Courtot saw things differently. Just months after Mark Benioff stood up his hosted customer relationship management (CRM) platform, Salesforce.com, Courtot launched his firm Qualys, which took what was at that time relatively new security function – […]

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