Blog – dope.security

March 14, 2025

Why Venture Capital & Private Equity Firms Need dope.security

Calling all Venture Capital (VC) and Private Equity (PE) firms: if your investment strategies are flying high, you don’t want cyber threats or legacy cloud proxies dragging you into an emergency landing. dope.security offers a smooth, nonstop route to keeping your sensitive data, deal details, and investor relations secure—no stopovers required.

February 20, 2025

What Is a Captive Portal and Why Does It Matter?

For enterprise security, captive portals are where things start to break. Most Secure Web Gateway (SWG) solutions struggle with them because they rely on a stopover proxy architecture—routing all your traffic through their servers. And that’s where the problems begin.

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September 14, 2023

Tips from Jedi Master Nico Popp, CPO of Tenable

Episode I: How to Be a Dope Product Manager

August 23, 2023

What is Shadow IT?

How to identify applications employees are using with Shadow IT. Employees always look for new ways to improve their productivity and efficiency, and, naturally, the newest applications haven’t been officially purchased by the company (yet).

dope.security Policy Update Interval is Instant 🤩

We've removed the pain of editing a policy on “Legacy” SWGs — AKA don’t wait an hour to update your policy anymore!

Managing Proxy SSL Inspection Breaking Applications

SSL inspection is a security feature of SWGs that enables them to decrypt SSL-encrypted traffic, scan it for potential threats, and re-encrypt it before forwarding the traffic to its destination.

GV (Google Ventures) joins the First-Class flight

From GV.com — In the past few years, we’ve seen significant disruptions to the traditional workplace and the tools that govern how work gets done.

December 22, 2022

Blocking Personal Gmail/Hotmail/Outlook at a company

Imagine you’ve given out 300, 1000, or even 10,000 laptops, and now, all of your employees can access their personal Gmail on the work laptop.

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