Security: Interviews
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Websense CEO unveils a brand-new company 29/09/2008 10:21:00
Gene Hodges explains the reasoning behind the new logo change, the DLP market and unveils corporate goals for 2009With last year's acquisition of Port Authority, a data loss prevention (DLP) vendor and SurfControl, a Web and e-mail security company, Websense has since evolved from being known as a Web solution company to establishing itself as one that also provides DLP and e-mail security solutions. - +
Keeping security talent on the job 18/09/2008 10:45:00
AlliedBarton's learning and development guru Rich Cordivari shares his company's strategy for keeping security professionals engaged and happy in a high turnover industryAs vice president of learning and development for US-based AlliedBarton Security Services, Rich Cordivari is responsible for the training community in the company. That means he oversees 150 trainers who work locally all over the country to deliver education to AlliedBarton employees. Cordivari, who has been with the company since 2003, discusses his strategy for boosting retention rates with programs that speak to the company's diverse geographic accounts, as well as the different generations now working for AlliedBarton. - +
AT&T security guru talks DoS attacks, hackers 08/09/2008 08:04:00
Botnets, protection of personal information pose biggest challenges, AT&T CSO Edward Amoroso says.Edward Amoroso is the chief security officer at AT&T in the US, as well as a professor who has written several textbooks on information security. Amoroso spoke with Jon Brodkin last week in Boston, where he delivered a keynote about network security during Forrester's Security Forum. - +
MBTA flaw disclosure: The students speak up 08/09/2008 11:51:00
Zack Anderson, one of three MIT students who successfully exploited flaws in the Massachusetts transit authority's ticketing system, says they were right to disclose the problem, but that miscommunication was an issue.Zack Anderson was one of three MIT students who caused a stir over the summer when they decided to disclose flaws they discovered in the Massachusetts transit authority's "Charlie Card" fare system. - +
At the front lines of protecting the Internet 03/09/2008 08:35:00
VeriSign's CTO on securing the DNS infrastructure and whether new identity certificates add any valueVeriSign is in many ways synonymous with managing the Web, thanks to its handling of key DNS root servers and of name resolution for .com, .net, and other domains. In recent years, it's had both strong ups and strong downs. - +
Facebook Tech Infrastructure Needs Constant Care 02/09/2008 13:35:00
Jonathan Heiliger, the top technology exec at the huge social networking site, talks about his efforts to build a technology operations team at Facebook that can both handle millions of users worldwide and a restless, creative culture inside the company.Started in a dorm room four years ago, the social networking site Facebook now claims to be the fourth most-trafficked site in the world. Ninety million active users pound on 10,000 servers every day, uploading millions and millions of pieces of information in a given month. For example, "friends," who socialize in 21 languages, add 500 million photos per month. - +
ConSentry CEO talks up security issues 08/07/2008 09:31:50
Joe Golden's résumé includes stints at Accel Partners and CiscoNetwork-access-control start-up ConSentry Networks has filled its long-vacant CEO position with Joe Golden, a partner in Accel Partners, a ConSentry investor. Golden was a partner in Accel Partners' London venture-capital office from 2001 until ConSentry hired him; before that he was Cisco's managing director of business development and strategic alliances for Europe, Middle East and Africa. With NAC in flux and with some start-ups having failed, Golden spoke with Network World Senior Editor Tim Greene about ConSentry, its strategy and the future of NAC. - +
E-voting activist more optimistic about voting systems 07/07/2008 11:27:59
Most states have switched to paper records, Rubin notesFor more than a decade, Aviel "Avi" Rubin, a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and an e-voting activist, has been a vocal critic of e-voting systems across the nation. In 2006, Rubin wrote the book, Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting, which heavily criticized e-voting machines for security and reliability shortcomings. Rubin talked with Computerworld about the recent presidential primary election cycle and his thoughts on e-voting going into the November elections. The following is an edited version of that interview. - +
Cybercrime Convention will benefit Australia, says proponent 19/05/2008 09:36:30
Countries that have complied with the Convention have considerably strengthened their cybercrime legislation.The Convention on Cybercrime is the work of the Council of Europe and is aimed at facilitating international cooperation in the investigation and prosecution of computer crimes. Since the Convention came into being in 2001, the COE has been working to address the growing international concern over the threats posed by hacking and other computer-related crimes. - +
Chinese Internet censorship: An inside look 13/05/2008 10:32:56
Cisco, VPNs and other topics related to Internet access in ChinaJames Fallows, national correspondent for US publication The Atlantic Monthly, has experienced "The Great Firewall of China" firsthand, an experience people from around the world will share this summer when the Olympics comes to that country. Based in Beijing, Fallows has researched the underlying technology that the Chinese use for Internet censorship, and he explained it in a recent article titled "The Connection Has Been Reset." We e-mailed Fallows questions about how the Chinese government controls Internet content available to its citizens, and here's what he had to say (Check out our slideshow on the 10 ways the Chinese Internet is different from yours). - +
Head of PCI council sees security standard as solid 17/04/2008 10:40:46
GM Bob Russo defends payment card rules but acknowledges that 'interpretation issues' remainThe PCI Security Standards Council was established in the US by the major credit card companies in September 2006 as an independent organization to manage the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. In an interview, general manager Bob Russo talks about the council's efforts to administer the PCI standard amid continuing concerns about credit and debit card security. And he defends the standard, despite the recent data breaches at Hannaford Bros. and Okemo Mountain Resort.
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