Sol Cates | Principal Technologist, Data Protection
Sol is a technology leader with deep experience of the information security landscape. He credits constant curiosity, combined with an early interest in computers, for leading him into a career that now spans over 20 years in cyber-security.
As the global leader of Research and Technology at Thales, he is focused on improving understanding of today's challenges, tomorrow's hurdles, and developing solutions that address those problems. His teams source and understand the challenges of security professionals, and develop solutions to address those challenges efficiently and effectively. Through his three and-a-half years with Thales, and his prior experiences, Sol has gathered a wide set of experience and viewpoints – he has been a vendor, administrator, CISO, CTO, CIO, security analyst, developer and architect, among other roles.
5 Needed Zero-Trust Answers on Taming Certificate Sprawl
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The Many Challenges of a Multi-Cloud Business Environment
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Best Practices for Your Digital Transformation Journey
Do you recall when the phrase “Digital Transformation” seemed like just the latest technology buzzword, and it seemed so far off in the… Read More
Thales Secures Data for Google Cloud VMware Engine
As I noted in my December 16, 2019 blog post “Cloud Data Security: Who… Read More
RSAC 2020: Trust in the Cloud. What Should You Do with Your Encryption Keys?
In the past decade, businesses started evaluating the pros and cons of moving to the cloud in order to meet the increased demand for the… Read More
Hindsight is 2020. Looking back so we can move forward
2020 ends a decade, and the new year prompted me to think “Wow it’s been two decades since we started Vormetric.” And the mission we… Read More