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CEO, Hiperos
Member Since: 4/21/2015
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Greg has an exceptional track record of driving innovation and revenue within the software and technology space. Under Greg's leadership, Hiperos continues to establish itself as one of the premier solutions for 3rd party management.
Prior to Hiperos, Greg was CEO at Venafi, an encryption management software company. Before Venafi, Greg was senior vice president of North American Sales and a member of the CEO's management committee for Ariba. Greg joined Ariba in 1997 when it was a start-up with less than $1 million in revenue. By the time he left Ariba in 2004, he was part of the executive team responsible for managing a $200 million company. Greg began his professional career as a founding member of PCNet, Inc., a computer reseller. A true visionary, Greg helped launch PCNet's first Internet product and became a sought-after expert on doing business on the web.
Greg served in the United States Air Force, where he was the recipient of both the Air Force Commendation Medal and Humanitarian Award. He holds a master's degree in information systems from Pace University and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Southern Connecticut State.
Articles by Greg Dickinson
Election Websites, Back-End Systems Most at Risk of Cyberattack in Midterms
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark Reading,  8/14/2018
Intel Reveals New Spectre-Like Vulnerability
Curtis Franklin Jr., Senior Editor at Dark Reading,  8/15/2018
Australian Teen Hacked Apple Network
Dark Reading Staff 8/17/2018
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CVE-2011-2765
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-20
pyro before 3.15 unsafely handles pid files in temporary directory locations and opening the pid file as root. An attacker can use this flaw to overwrite arbitrary files via symlinks.
CVE-2018-15594
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-20
arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18.1 mishandles certain indirect calls, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct Spectre-v2 attacks against paravirtual guests.
CVE-2018-15572
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-20
The spectre_v2_select_mitigation function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18.1 does not always fill RSB upon a context switch, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct userspace-userspace spectreRSB attacks.
CVE-2018-15573
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-20
** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in Reprise License Manager (RLM) through 12.2BL2. Attackers can use the web interface to read and write data to any file on disk (as long as rlm.exe has access to it) via /goform/edit_lf_process with file content in the lfdata parameter and a pathname in the lf...
CVE-2018-15574
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-20
** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in the license editor in Reprise License Manager (RLM) through 12.2BL2. It is a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the /goform/edit_lf_get_data lf parameter via GET or POST. NOTE: the vendor has stated "We do not consider this a vulnerability."