The departure of Facebook
Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos is just the latest in which the respected security executive clashed with higher ups over the handling of a major data breach.
Hackers could pose a threat come November elections, said Mark Graff, founder of cybersecurity company Tellagraff and the former
chief information security officer for Nasdaq, during his keynote speech at the New York Institute of Technology's Annual Cybersecurity Conference last week.
They discuss the impact on DHS's National Protection and Programs Directorate from President Obama's recent creation of a Federal
Chief Information Security Officer in the Executive Office of the President and the launch of the Global Cyber Alliance.
Websites including Yahoo Mail, the main Yahoo homepage and Yahoo Digital Magazines now have «the latest in security best - practices» and use secure Web connections by default, said
Yahoo Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos in a blog posting yesterday (April 2).
We spoke with Grady Summers, a vice president at Mandiant Corp., an Alexandria, Va. - based information - security firm, and
former chief information security officer at General Electric Co., to assemble a list of easy - to - use, free tools that any company — including those without a technology staff — can use to create a comprehensive security program to protect its network, computers and data.
According to The Verge, sources say Twitter
Chief Information Security Officer Michael Coates announced internally about three weeks ago that he was stepping away from his role, but there was no external announcement.
Malwarebytes» survey, conducted by Osterman Research, took in the experiences of 540 IT directors and managers, chief information officers, and
chief information security officers from companies with an average of 5,400 employees.
At the annual RSA Conference held at the Moscone Center here on Wednesday,
Microsoft Chief Information Security Officer Bret Arsenault and Google Director of Security for Google Apps Eran Feigenbaum explained their stances on cloud security at a panel also featuring noted independent security expert Bruce Schneier and Verizon's data breach risk team expert, Wade Baker.
According to Shwed on the earnings call, «CISOs
[chief information security officers], CIOs [chief information officers], and others have the ability to see the bigger picture and update their overall security architecture to fifth - generation protection.»
Chaired by Flash Entertainment general counsel Andrew Cooke, it will also include a range of other speakers from General
Electric chief information security officer, George Eapen, to the chief executive of Bridg, Moussa Beidas, who also co-founded the smartphone payment platform, and Eversheds Sutherland Middle East chairman Nasser Ali Khasawneh.
Yes indeed, and it lies in taking a leaf from the works of the Jericho Forum, that body of
Chief Information Security Officers founded in 2002 and disbanded a decade later, when the group deemed its work on «de-perimeterisation'to be complete.
«In order to stay a step ahead of cyber criminals that are continuously finding new ways to hack devices, we must invest in the safety of the digital lives of our residents,» said Geoff Brown,
Citywide Chief Information Security Officer.
Barclays Bank PLC Group
Chief Information Security Officer Troels Oerting, former Head of Europol's Cybercrime Centre (EC3), said: «Consumers and enterprises alike in today's marketplace must have confidence in the transactions that we now take for granted in cyberspace.
January 2014 to Present State of California — Health Departmentâ $» New Cityland, CA Chief Information Security Officer
A post on the Sony Europe blog by Philip Reitinger, the VP and
chief information security officer for Sony Group points to «another source not from our networks», attempting to test sign - in IDs and passwords... Read more
Facebook
chief information security officer Alex Stamos is leaving the company in August, a source said on Monday, and a report cited internal disagreements over how the social network should deal with its role in spreading disinformation.
ShapeShift's
Chief Information Security Officer Michael Perklin agrees with Manifold Technology that a properly implemented blockchain with securely managed keys can be significantly more secure than a centralized database.
«Organisations and law enforcement need to take a page from our approach — by sharing knowledge, methodologies, tools, and best practices,» said Troels Oerting, Global Cyber Alliance Board Chairman and Barclays Group Chief Security Officer (CSO) and
Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
According to two of the former employees, Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's decision to obey the directive roiled some senior executives and led to the June 2015 departure
of Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos, who now holds the top security job at Facebook Inc..
-- Alvaro Hoyos,
chief information security officer at OneLogin, which provides single sign - on and identity management for cloud - based applications
Soto was previously Senior Vice President and Global
Chief Information Security Officer of Comcast Corp., which she joined in 2009.
On Monday night, the Times reported that Alex Stamos, Facebook's
chief information security officer, was planning to leave the company in August as it grapples with a storm of controversies relating to its role in spreading misinformation before the 2016 election.
For IT managers, and more specifically the growing class of
chief information security officers (CISOs), the chaos has taken over their lives, and the software world isn't helping.
Some highlights: John Flynn, Uber's
chief information security officer, told the panel that his company «made a misstep» by failing to promptly report a 2016 data breach that recently came to light.
«Verizon is committed to the highest standards of accountability and transparency, and we proactively work to ensure the safety and security of our users and networks in an evolving landscape of online threats,» said Chandra McMahon, Verizon's
chief information security officer, in a statement.