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Fear Users, Says IDC Security Chief
News Richard Jacobs, chief technology officer of security vendor Sophos, agreed that user access should be controlled, but said that control should be light to lessen any impact on user productivity. Access to applications and systems needs to be...
[September 25, 2007, 13:41]
Security Pros Seek Chief Executive
News The Institute of IT Security Professionals is recruiting a chief executive officer. Launched in 2006, the IISP brings together security professionals from across industry sectors to network and share good practice.
[March 29, 2007, 12:59]
Security Chief Quits Microsoft
News Okin was appointed as Microsoft UK's first chief security officer in February 2002, and is well respected by security professionals. Stuart Okin, the public face of Microsoft UK's security work, has resigned from the software giant.
[October 13, 2004, 17:15]
Staff Training Is Vital For Security
News Staff disabling virus protection and not bothering to change their passwords are security threats too great to let slide, according to one leading international chief information officer. The threat from employees taking a lax attitude to IT...
[June 20, 2002, 10:21]
Sun Creates New Security Posts
News Sun Microsystems has created two high-ranking computer security positions, naming one of its top researchers chief security officer and indicating that Sun, too, wants to elevate the importance of security.
[April 18, 2002, 12:45]
Diffie Defends Open-source Security
News Whitfield Diffie, the inventor of public key cryptography, and now chief security officer at Sun Microsystems, spoke out in defence of the security of open-source software at the RSA Conference in Paris on Tuesday.
[October 9, 2002, 9:02]
MS Security Chief: We Are Not Stopping Development
News Microsoft has appointed a chief security officer for the UK as part of its efforts to build better protection from hackers and viruses into its market-dominating software. What with Okin's appointment as chief security officer for the UK also...
[February 15, 2002, 15:07]
Juniper Loses Two Key Executives
News The networking and security equipment maker, which competes against Cisco Systems, said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that chief financial officer Bob Dykes and Robert Sturgeon, executive vice president of its...
[March 14, 2007, 8:16]
Spying Worms Likely To Proliferate
News Bruce Schneier, the chief technology officer of security firm Counterpane Internet Security, also spoke of the risk of vulnerability assessment worms in a blog earlier this week. James Kay, the chief technology officer of Blackspider, said on...
[June 10, 2005, 16:10]
Bush Security Drive Could Include Privacy Czar
News A draft of the legislation seen by CNET News.com states that the Secretary of Homeland Security must appoint a privacy officer to ensure that new technologies "sustain and do not erode" privacy protections and to verify that the agency's massive...
[July 11, 2002, 10:08]
Businesses Consider 'hacking Insurance'
News After February's high-profile denial-of-service attacks and May's epidemic of the ILOVEYOU virus, businesses want more than good security, said Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer of Counterpane.
[July 10, 2000, 13:02]
Action Steps For Improving Information Security
White Papers This may require the appointment of a chief security officer (CSO) or a chief privacy officer (CPO). Other white papers in this series have outlined the many risks and threats that exist and threaten network security.
[January 27, 2004, 23:00]
US Homeland Security CIO Blamed For IT Woes
News In response to reports of persistent cybersecurity flaws at the US Department of Homeland Security, a top congressional Democrat on Wednesday questioned whether the agency's chief information officer deserves to keep his job.
[June 21, 2007, 10:35]
Cybersecurity Groups Work On White Papers
News said Mary Ann Davidson, chief security officer at database maker Oracle and the co-chair of the Technical Standards and Common Criteria Task Force, one of the five working groups. Time lines are important and necessary, but people are coming...
[December 5, 2003, 11:10]
CSOs Stress The Need For Business Sense
News Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle's chief security officer, said for software vendors, the need to understand the role security plays in wooing customers from competition is also something to consider. David Mortman, chief information security officer of...
[February 18, 2005, 8:45]
Microsoft Gears Up Monthly Patch Release
News Greg Shipley, co-founder and chief technology officer with US-based security company Neohapsis, told ZDNet Australia that the new policy will actually make some things harder. Security professional and former chief security officer of InterNIC...
[November 11, 2003, 15:10]
Researcher Sacked Over Anti-Microsoft Paper
News When Dan was on the call, he was an employee," said Schneier, who serves as chief technical officer at Counterpane Internet Security. Stake, where Geer worked as chief technical officer, said in a statement on Thursday that the researcher had not...
[September 26, 2003, 8:50]
VeriSign: DoS Attack Could Shut Down Internet
News There are attacks attempting to shut down our servers," said Ken Silva, VeriSign's chief security officer. The chief security officer said that VeriSign "hoped to get smarter" in blocking malicious traffic.
[September 25, 2007, 17:20]
BT Buys Bruce Schneier's Security Company
News Both chief technology officer Schneier and chief executive officer Paul Stich will remain in their present roles. Telecommunications giant BT has acquired Counterpane Internet Security, the threat monitoring company founded by security expert Bruce...
[October 25, 2006, 12:20]
UK Security Industry Gets Professional Body
News It will become a conduit between industry and government," said Paul Wood, chief security officer at UBS. Existing qualifications are great for knowledge, but they are not based around the application of knowledge," Paul Dorey, chair of IISP and...
[February 28, 2006, 8:50]
