Melih Abdulhayoglu’s Blog | Insights on Cybersecurity

Melih AbdulhayogluMay 5, 2017

My response to a recent blog has resulted in a quick response that I feel obliged to respond. First of all, the positive: Agreement on the need to invest on a new revocation infrastructure. “Basically, I see the value in revocation checking and think the investments need to be made to make it work and […]

Melih AbdulhayogluMay 4, 2017

Some in the industry have responded to my post about the need for the revocation infrastructure. They put forward an argument defending the need for short lived certificates by saying: “the main reason for them is to address the issue of key compromise“. They followed it by “The most important thing to keep in mind […]

Melih AbdulhayogluApril 8, 2017

There is much talk on the web about Encryption lately. There has been much talk about whether CAs (Certification Authorities) should care who they enable with encryption or not. I will attempt at clarifying these issues, as I see the world of PKI and encryption. So what is Encryption: the process of converting information or […]

Melih AbdulhayogluApril 29, 2015

Why IT Management…… Operating system was big in the early days, because it enabled us to manage many different pieces like sound card, video card, hard disk etc without us having to write code directly for each and every hardware. We only have to write code for the operating system, then the operating system itself […]

Melih AbdulhayogluFebruary 25, 2015

With what is happening in the market place with superfish, there is a “realization” of an old and established method called “HTTPS Local Proxy”. What is it, well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server will explain it in more detail. *********from Wikipedia************** Filtering of encrypted data Web filtering proxies are not able to peer inside secure sockets HTTP transactions, assuming the […]

Melih AbdulhayogluFebruary 17, 2015

Today is a special day, a very special day indeed and it is all thanks to our amazing users, customers and partners. Today, Comodo is the no. 1 security and trust provider in the world! Since the creation of the Internet, the title of the largest certificate authority has always been held by Verisign (now […]

Melih AbdulhayogluMay 10, 2014

Thank you Symantec for listening to my call and admitting that Legacy Antivirus is no longer enough to do the job. I called on the whole Antivirus industry and gave Symantec as an example and said: “Time to own up – Traditional Anti-Virus is no longer enough“. Symantec came thru and admitted it, albeit it […]

Melih AbdulhayogluMarch 28, 2014

Now, we all heard about detection, prevention, cleaning, behaviour blocker, firewall, Antivirus, Anti malware, detection tests, antivirus tests….it can be confusing… What is what and and more importantly what do I need as a consumer! I will try to explain whats involved in desktop security products and hopefully will arm you with more knowledge about […]

Melih AbdulhayogluMarch 13, 2014

I and Comodo have one goal, to empower and protect our end users. Our motto is, “look after our users, money will follow”, it works and always has. We put our users first. Knowing that our users empower Comodo with their business. Its a beautiful relationship that works. Everything we do is designed to either […]

Melih AbdulhayogluJanuary 5, 2014

But we are not in the business of taking the easy route out nor in the business of being one sided if we can innovate to solve it for both parties. PrivDog is designed with Privacy of the user in mind. Our DNA is about securing the user and his/her privacy. Advertising is an area […]