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OpenTable Joins With Secure ID Firm CLEAR To Streamline Vaccine Verification For Diners, Restaurants – CBS San Francisco

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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — As San Francisco and other major cities begin requiring proof of a COVID vaccination for indoor dining, online restaurant reservation provider OpenTable is partnering with secure identity firm CLEAR to help establishments check diners’ vaccine status.

San Francisco-based OpenTable said Wednesday that when diners use the app to make a reservation at a restaurant requiring vaccination, it will display a “CLEAR” banner on the reservation confirmation page linking to instructions on creating a digital vaccine card on the CLEAR app.

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The CLEAR digital vaccine card will appear on the OpenTable app for easy proof of vaccination. The CLEAR vaccine card connects a person’s verified identity to their proof of vaccination from hundreds of vaccine providers across the country, including the state of California and national pharmacies.

“Our partnership with CLEAR furthers our commitment to help both restaurants and diners navigate dining out in the next chapter of the pandemic,” said OpenTable CEO Debby Soo in a press statement. “This collaboration aims to streamline restaurant entry, saving time for both restaurant staff and diners and lets everyone focus on the meal – not the logistics.”

The OpenTable/CLEAR integration is expected to launch in September on OpenTable’s iPhone and Android apps.

Last week, San Francisco began requiring businesses in high-contact indoor sectors such as bars, restaurants, indoor gyms and entertainment venues to obtain proof of vaccination from their patrons and employees, the first health order of its kind in the nation.

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The mandate follows a number of tough COVID-19 measures San Francisco imposed since the beginning of the pandemic. The city and its neighboring counties in the Bay Area were the first in the nation to order residents to stay at home in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus and was the first big city in the nation to require all city employees to be vaccinated, without the option of testing…

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Former Twilio exec joins crypto tech firm MoonPay

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Nils Puhlmann, MoonPay

Cryptocurrency payments solution MoonPay has appointed Nils Puhlmann as its Chief Risk and Security Officer. 

Puhlmann was previously the Chief Trust and Security Officer at travel tech firm TripActions and before that held the same role at Twilio, a cloud communications platform-as-a-service based in San Francisco.  

He was also the co-founder and former board member of the Cloud Security Alliance, a global community of over 50,000 computer security professionals. 

In his role at MoonPay, Puhlmann will focus on assuring the safety and security of all operations as the company continues to scale.  

The company says his wealth of experience in security, risk management, and compliance will be critical as MoonPay grows its user and partner base across new markets, ensuring the business adheres to all regulations and creating a secure ecosystem for its users. 

Puhlmann’s appointment follows MoonPay’s hiring of former Coinbase UK CEO, Zeeshan Feroz, as its Chief Growth Officer in March. 

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Ivan Soto-Wright, founder and CEO at MoonPay said: “At MoonPay, we have ambitious growth plans, and as we continue on our journey and expand into new markets, the safety and security of our customers and partners’ data is of the utmost importance.  

“Puhlmann’s experience and strength in protection and risk management will be fundamental as we continue to grow. We’re delighted to welcome him to the team.” 

Puhlmann added: “MoonPay’s growth over the last 24 months has been impressive in a particularly competitive market.  

“Its mission to provide the technology that will allow one billion users to access cryptocurrency by 2030 is one that I have long-shared and I am thrilled to join this talented team at this exciting stage of the company’s development. 

“As MoonPay continues to expand into new markets and work with a range of new partners, risk, compliance and security will become increasingly important. I look forward to building on the stellar work already done by the team, and working to set a higher bar for…

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Threat Intelligence Pioneer Joins Cybersecurity Leader onShore Security

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Craig Brozefsky returns to onShore Security

CHICAGO – July 29, 2021 – (Newswire.com)

onShore Security, one of the nation’s top Managed Detection and Response (MDR) providers today proudly announced the addition of threat intelligence powerhouse Craig Brozefsky to its growing roster of top talent leading the way in today’s increasingly complex and high-stakes cybersecurity landscape. Brozefsky joins onShore Security’s team as Senior Engineer and brings experience from his previous work on THREATBrain, a malware behavioral analysis engine. This industry-leading work led Brozefsky to a position as Director of Engineering at ThreatGRID and the company’s subsequent acquisition by Cisco. At Cisco, Brozefsky was the principal engineer, working to integrate THREATGRID’s threat intelligence capabilities across the company’s portfolio. He then went on to build and lead the team that developed the Cisco Threat Intelligence Model as an intelligence and security platform for enterprises. 

Brozefsky worked for onShore Security in the ’90s, and his return is part of a larger project for the company. Last month, onShore Security announced its expanding utilization of Elastic technology, which is being further integrated into the company’s operation. In his new role. Brozefsky will be aiding onShore in updating and refining its Elastic store and improving automation and event correlation.

Steven Kent, Chief Technology Officer of onShore Security notes, “We are excited to bring Craig back to onShore; his experience & acute awareness of the security landscape will help us continue to extend industry-leading security offerings for our clients and create an even stronger development environment for our security features. Craig shares our goals of ensuring the most secure data handling experience for our customers, and we are looking forward to growing together.”

Brozefsky explains his background and future with onShore saying, “I started my career in security at onShore; as one of the first internet security and networking service companies in the region, it was a pioneer then, and it continues to be today. My professional path took me into software engineering,…

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Selim Aissi, Industry Veteran CISO and Information Security Leader, Joins FundingShield Advisory Board | Business

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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jul 20, 2021–

FundingShield is pleased to announce that Selim Aissi has joined its advisory board.

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Ike Suri – Chairman & CEO, FundingShield (Photo: Business Wire)

Until recently, Selim was Senior Vice President & Chief Security Officer at Ice Mortgage Technology (F/K/A Ellie Mae) where he was responsible for Ellie Mae’s Security Engineering, Operations, Strategy, Cyber Resilience, and GRC. FundingShield’s CEO & Chairman Ike Suri shared, “We have high regard for Selim, his experience, his accomplishments and his network. We look forward to working with him to accomplish additional growth for FundingShield.”

Selim shared, “I am thrilled about joining FundingShield as an Advisory Board Member and to be part of their successful journey in addressing some of the most challenging issues in the Financial industry such as transaction-level Fraud and Cyber Threats.”

In addition to his leadership role for the past 6 years at Ellie Mae (up to and through the Inter-Continental Exchange acquisition of Ellie Mae), Selim has held various roles including Vice President of Global Information Security at Visa where he transformed Visa’s information security program into the industry leader, led critical security programs including product security innovation, and enabled global growth and datacenter expansion. He also led technologies for protecting Visa’s data, networks, data centers, digital wallets, applications, end-point devices, and other core capabilities for corporate network as well as issuer- and consumer-facing products and services. Selim was recognized for leading company-wide Security Initiatives including ApplePay, Visa’s APAC Data Center, and Visa’s Data Protection Programs.

Selim also spent over 11 years at Intel where he held senior management and technology roles and championed several security technologies for Intel’s server, desktop, and mobile products. Prior to Intel, Selim held senior engineering positions at General Dynamics – Land Systems Division…

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