Josh Bregman

First of all, a quick acknowledgement of my lack of blogging. Life at Vordel has been really fast paced, and I've been traveling the country working on a lot of interesting use cases with some really great customers. I'm flying from San Diego to San Francisco, and this flight has... (more)

I've got the agenda for the first meeting of the Boston Chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance. When: Wednesday April 27, 2011 - 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Where: CA Offices in Framingham, MAAgenda: Two presentations, each with their own unique and insightful perspectives on the topic of cl... (more)

I'm happy to announce that we're going to have our first meeting of the Boston Chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance on Wednesday, April 27th at 6:00 at the Oracle office in Burlington, MA. The topic for this meeting is Cloud Security Architecture. We wanted to cover both the co... (more)

After many scheduling challenges, we had our first CSA Boston Chapter Board Meeting. The "Board" consists of me (Vordel), Prateek Mishra (Oracle),Matthew Gardiner (CA), and Kevin Fox (Cisco). A really good session for planning out the year. Here's the basic thinking: - Divide the... (more)

I've made some real progress on the Maven integration with the Vordel XML Gateway. I've updated the incubator with the latest set of policies. These policies provide two main features: The ability to download the Gateway libraries as dependencies directly from the gateway The abi... (more)

In my first few weeks at Vordel, I've been spending a lot of time on the "cool" part of the product - building circuits and policies. As a developer, I really enjoy (am amazed) at how quickly you can know things out. But this is a job after all, so I also have to spend time comin... (more)

In general synchronous web-services are simpler and more common than asynchronous web services. I like them, because for 99% of cases, the security can be done at the transport level using 2-way SSL. Asynchronous web-services introduce additional security challenges - mainly that... (more)

I was in a discussion yesterday with a customer and the question of "Do I need an internal gateway in addition to my ESB?" came up. In general, people thing about XML gateways as the security appliance that you stick in the DMZ to prevent unauthorized access to services (i.e. the... (more)

After much debate, I'm pleased to announce the Vordel Incubator. I'm modelling after the wildly successful Oracle Coherence Incubator. The idea is to work as a community - company, customers, partners - on building solutions to real-world problems. I've started the project off ve... (more)

One of the strengths of the Vordel XML Gateway is the ability of the product to be extended using Java. You can do this in two ways: JavaScript and through writing custom Filters. The really clever part about how the XML Gateway is engineered is that the underlying XML layers are... (more)

I'm finally back home after 4 straights days in airports. During the week I delivered a really interesting use case that I wanted to share. This was in support of a demo where the customer wanted to understand how OAuth works with the XML Gateway. Given the natures of POCs, I had... (more)

I'm in the process of getting the Boston chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance started. I'm just waiting for the "paperwork" to go through, but I'm really excited about what I'm hearing from customers about the cloud. Coming from Oracle, you get a bit of the "Larry Hates the Clo... (more)

What a week! I didn't get stuck anywhere - except for snowed in at home - but it was really busy. I did have the pleasure of ending the week briefing a group of really smart architects and pre-sales people on the Vordel Gateway. When talking about the gateway, it is easy to get int... (more)

I spent the bulk of today updating the technical sales presentations for some upcoming training that we're giving in Boston. While brainstorming about the key messages to deliver to customers, I came across this cartoon. It's admittedly a little silly, but I really like the core co... (more)

Nothing inspires me to blog like being stuck in an airport. I'm stuck in DC on a return from my first Vordel customer trip. We saw customers in San Diego, Los Angeles, Bay Area, and Seattle. Some of them there were very interested in the integration between Oracle Access Manager ... (more)

Hello from Dublin, I'm nearly at the end of a very long week for Vordel Company kick-off, but I wanted to take the time get the new blog headed in the right direction. I know that my blogging activity tailed off over the last few months, but one of my 2011 New Year's resolutions ... (more)

This is my inagural post in this blog - in my new job - as Chief Solutions Architect at Vordel. In my time at Oracle, I had the opportunity to work with Vordel at a number of customers, and two things really stood out - the quality of the products and the quality of the people. I... (more)