Re: Sony Just Hired a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:40:23 EDT, Jeffrey Walton said:
> Philip Reitinger, former director of the United States National
> Cyber-Security Center, a division of the Department of Homeland
> Security, will be joining Sony as a chief information security
> officer, Sony said Sept. 6.

Horses and barn doors...

> Security experts and industry watchers criticized Sony for not having
> had a CISO prior to the breaches. "How can a worldwide company with
> billions in revenue and an even larger market cap not have a CISO? It
> boggles the mind," Phil Blank, an analyst in the security, risk and
> fraud practice area at Javelin Strategy & Research, wrote on the
> market research firm's blog in May.

"If you spend more on coffee than you spend on IT security, then you will
be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked."  -- Richard Clarke

Anybody want to guess what Sony's coffee/itsec ratio was?

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