"It's a good idea, " says Bruce Schneier, security guru and chief security officer of British Telecom.
David Miller, chief security officer at Covisint (a subsidiary of Compuware), is a perfect example.
FORBES: Influx of Nerds Changes Tenor of Auto Industry's Summer Camp
Collaborate with the Designated Official for Security and with the UNDSS Chief Security Advisor on all security-related issues.
But when it comes to practices that make chief security officers cringe, Brazil and China take special honors.
Hire a Chief Security Officer and associated staff that will focus solely on issues relating to information security.
FORBES: Blippy Apologizes For Google-Searchable Credit Cards, Announces New Security Plan
Cisco's chief security officer John N Stewart also suggested that Mr Schmidt had his work cut out for him.
"People are cruel, " says Hemanshu Nigam, chief security officer at MySpace, which requires no ID data for any post.
The following is an interview with Solutionary Chief Security Strategist Don Gray.
Mikko Hypponen is chief security officer for F-Secure, a leading computer security company.
BBC: Viewpoint: Stuxnet shifts the cyber arms race up a gear
Moore, chief security officer at the security firm Rapid7 who has tested numerous Java exploitation techniques over the last year.
FORBES: Forget Oracle's Latest Java Patch. Just Kill The Program In Your Browser For Good
Moore, chief security officer at security firm Rapid 7, which had integrated the exploit into its Metasploit penetration testing tool.
FORBES: Oracle Quietly Releases Fix For Serious Java Security Bug--Months After It Was Reported
Counterfeiters "are going after anything and everything, from patented to non-patented, expensive to inexpensive, " said John Clark, Pfizer's chief security officer.
That decision was made by the chief security interrogator at the scene in consultation with the Department of Justice, Mueller said.
"Security starts with knowing what you have, " said Stephen Schmidt, chief security officer at Amazon's web services told the BBC in an earlier interview.
BBC: How the New York Times cleaned house after its hack attack
And Martin Carmichael, chief security officer at McAfee Software, says that internal data breaches are more likely than external attacks to reveal key private information.
Kurt Roemer is Chief Security Strategist at Citrix Systems.
FORBES: Virtualization: A Solution For The Tablet Security Conundrum
"It's true that it's impossible to completely defend against denial of service attacks and still be accessible, " says Marcus Ranum, chief security officer of Tenable Security.
Dr. Herbert Thompson, chief security strategist at People Security, carried out an in-depth study of the attitudes of security architects and security executives in large enterprises.
FORBES: Securing The Cloud: Why You Need Cast-Iron Guarantees
Hemanshu Nigam, first chief security officer for MySpace, said the firm warns about suspicious links and educates users about the harm phishing and malware attacks can bring.
He's served as vice chair of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and as chief security strategist for the US CERT Partners Program under the Department of Homeland Security.
Mr. HEMU NIGAM (Chief Security Officer, MySpace): Over the last year it's - we have implemented over, actually, over a hundred different safety features, designs and programs across our company.
"It's part of this overall story that the Chinese want to know what the West thinks of them, " said Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer with the computer-security company Mandiant Corp.
Richard Bejtlich, the chief security officer at Mandiant, the firm hired by the Times to investigate the cyberattack, said the breach is consistent with what he routinely sees China-based hacking groups do.
Richard Bejtlich, the chief security officer of the firm hired to investigate, said that if each attack was viewed in isolation it was hard to say with certainty that China's military was to blame.
Bruce Schneier, a security expert and chief security-technology officer at U.K.-based telecommunications company BT Group PLC, said one shouldn't assume that Zappos and Amazon have the same or similar security structures, despite their corporate relationship.
And Martin Carmichael, chief security officer at McAfee Software (nyse: MFE - news - people ), says that internal data breaches are more likely than external attacks to reveal key private information.
Mandiant's chief security officer, Richard Bejtlich, said that "if you look at each attack in isolation, you can't say, 'This is the Chinese military', " but that the similar patterns and targets of the attacks indicated a connection.
"We have Seyed Hassan Nasrallah, God protect his life, behind us, and we are not afraid of those people, that trash, " said Zuhair Sweid, the chief security guard for the car showroom where one of the rockets struck.
应用推荐