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Coding in corporate responsibility

...houses — a company that also once described its product as "unbreakable". But Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle's chief security officer (CSO), takes on all challenges... Read more

16 May, 2005 by Eileen Yu

Oracle: Market forces fail to make software secure

...59bn. Speaking at the WWW2006 conference in Edinburgh on Thursday, Oracle's Mary-Ann Davidson also claimed that the British were particularly good at hacking... Read more

26 May, 2006 by Colin Barker and Jonathan Bennett

Patched Oracle database 'still vulnerable'

...for not working well with them to fix security holes. In response, Mary Ann Davidson, the business software maker's chief security officer, has said... Read more

27 April, 2006 by Dawn Kawamoto

Oracle releases flaw details

...collaborating well with researchers who find bugs. Oracle's chief security officer, Mary Ann Davidson, has responded in turn by saying bug hunters themselves can... Read more

19 April, 2006 by Joris Evers

Oracle patches 103 flaws

...being unresponsive to researchers who find bugs. Oracle's chief security officer, Mary Ann Davidson, has responded in turn by saying bug hunters themselves can... Read more

18 January, 2006 by Joris Evers

Oracle looks to 'Fortify' code

...products "is one of many things we do to develop secure products", Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle's chief security officer, said in an interview. "We... Read more

21 December, 2005 by Joris Evers

Oracle fixes bugs with mega patch

...being unresponsive to researchers who find bugs. Oracle's Chief Security Officer, Mary Ann Davidson, in response said security researchers can be a problem when... Read more

19 October, 2005 by Joris Evers

Security exploits: Who's to blame?

...open source community and the Internet Engineering Task Force, a standards organization. Mary Ann Davidson, chief security officer at Oracle, sees... For more, click here... Read more

6 September, 2005 by Joris Evers and Marguerite Reardon

CSOs stress the need for business sense

...about security as it will specifically affect Nike's business and industry. Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle's chief security officer, said for software vendors, the... Read more

18 February, 2005 by Dawn Kawamoto

Oracle gets with the patch programme

...site. "Organisations prefer regular, planned schedules for patching their information technology systems," Mary Ann Davidson, chief security officer of Oracle, said in a statement. "The... Read more

19 November, 2004 by Dinesh C Sharma

Oracle secures identity management

...system by using features that eliminate calls to company help desks, said Mary Ann Davidson, chief security officer at Oracle. Citing research from Meta Group... Read more

16 October, 2003 by Martin LaMonica

MS puts coders on bug alert

A month-long review of key software will seek to entrench Microsoft's push for better security - a challenge on par with 'herding cats' Read more

8 February, 2002 by Robert Lemos

Cloud computing security? It's all a bit hazy

...one reason for holding back. However, at a separate RSA panel session, Mary Ann Davidson, chief security officer at Oracle, suggested that many of the... Read more

22 April, 2009 by Steve Ranger

Oracle urges customers to fix fatal flaws immediately

...the patches for the six vulnerabilities and urge customers to apply them. Mary-Ann Davidson, Oracle's chief security officer, has tried to structure the... Read more

19 February, 2003 by Robert Lemos

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