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Niels Provos

Founder, Security Blueprints · 1 appearance on the record.

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Niels Provos is a computer security researcher who co-developed the bcrypt password-hashing algorithm and created open-source tools including libevent and honeyd. He previously served as a Distinguished Engineer at Google and led security at Stripe.

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1 prediction · 3 assertions · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Niels argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Niels Provos: Chromebooks with security keys create uncompromisable endpoints
“I continue to be a big proponent of something like a Chromebook with a security key, right? Essentially, you have an endpoint that cannot be compromised, even if you try. Because the weak point in all of this continues to be the human.”
Niels Provos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:57 a16z Podcast | The State of Security

Everything Niels Provos said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Niels Provos: Computer security is an incentive problem, not a tech problem
“It's probably not really a technology problem, it's an incentive problem.”
Niels Provos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:33 a16z Podcast | The State of Security
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Provos: Google experienced zero successful employee phishing attacks after mandating hardware keys
“We have mandated a hardware second factor for everybody at Google since 2009. You know, everybody is using a security key nowadays. We have not had a single successful phishing attack against a Google employee since then.”
Niels Provos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:34 a16z Podcast | The State of Security
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Provos: Everyone will rely on managed cloud providers for security by 2028
“In 10 years, everybody is going to be on a professionally run cloud that takes care of all of your security needs.”
Niels Provos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:04 a16z Podcast | The State of Security
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Provos: Google cannot offer mandatory hardware security key protection to billions
“Google rolled out this advanced protection program where you are forced to associate a security key with your account. That's the only way that you can get into your account. But that is not something that we can offer to billions of users.”
Niels Provos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:08 a16z Podcast | The State of Security
Assertion Contradicted
Niels Provos: Chromebooks with security keys create uncompromisable endpoints
“I continue to be a big proponent of something like a Chromebook with a security key, right? Essentially, you have an endpoint that cannot be compromised, even if you try. Because the weak point in all of this continues to be the human.”
Niels Provos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:57 a16z Podcast | The State of Security
Insight
Provos: Security doesn't need to be perfect, just better than peers
“Well, another thing that remains true is, adversaries often go to the place where the bar is lower. Right? So you oftentimes don't need to achieve perfect security, as long as security is mostly higher than somebody else.”
Niels Provos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:15 a16z Podcast | The State of Security

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | The State of Security Jan 2, 2019 4m
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