"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.
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Collaborate with the Designated Official for Security and with the UNDSS Chief Security Advisor on all security-related issues.
Hire a Chief Security Officer and associated staff that will focus solely on issues relating to information security.
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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.
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Mikko Hypponen is chief security officer for F-Secure, a leading computer security company.
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Moore, chief security officer at the security firm Rapid7 who has tested numerous Java exploitation techniques over the last year.
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Moore, chief security officer at security firm Rapid 7, which had integrated the exploit into its Metasploit penetration testing tool.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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.
The debate, hosted by Intelligences Squared, featured Bruce Schneier, (chief security technology officer with BT) and Marc Rotenberg (executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center) speaking in support of the idea that the threat of cyber war has indeed been exaggerated.
Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer at Mandiant, a computer-security company, said that in cases handled by his firm where intrusions were traced back to Chinese hackers, 94% of the targeted companies didn't realize they had been breached until someone else told them.
In fact, when I spoke with Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer at Mandiant and a well-known author and blogger on network security, he argued that APT1 is actually a relatively sloppy group of hackers, and that its mistakes were what part of what allowed Mandiant to profile the unit in such detail.
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Far more common--but still damaging--are the high-volume crime spikes, spam e-mail distribution and "phishing, " a pernicious technique for stealing credit-card information. (For more on online scams, check out "Where The Scammers Are".) The carnage is hard to pin down in dollar terms, but Marcus Ranum, chief security officer of Tenable Security, says it's "billions upon billions"--far more than all "major" hacking incidents combined.
We have a large IT security staff overseen by a Chief Information Security Officer who works to identify and implement best practices.
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