For that I turn to Lamar Bailey, director of security research and development for nCircle.
"It's a new trend that we've seen escalate in the the past few months, " said Reg Walker, director of security specialists, the Iridium Consultancy.
"We have capabilities that have a similar approach--go through the daily build, look for known flaws, " says Chris O'Conner, director of security strategy at IBM.
Rik Ferguson, director of security research at Trend Micro, said it was the first time he had heard of ransomware displaying images that users were accused of harbouring.
IBM's computers have authentication technology embedded on a chip installed in all its computers, said Clain Anderson, director of security solutions for personal computers at International Business Machines Corp.
"The key thing we want to achieve is application of our policies to whatever devices connect to our network, " says Brian Cincera, Pfizer senior director of security, identity and messaging.
"About half the schools in the country are still in the Dark Ages when it comes to admitting violence happens--they would rather just sweep it under the rug, " claims Catherine Bath, executive director of Security on Campus.
The DDoS attack directed at servers run by Spamhaus came at a rate of 300 gigabits a second, which is five or six times the intensity of typical cyberattacks against banks, said Dan Holden, director of security research at Arbor Networks Inc.
To further enhance state security, Swift also created a Cabinet-level position of Director of Commonwealth Security to work with the federal Office of Homeland Security.
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Republican Tom Ridge said Friday he would step down as governor of Pennsylvania on October 5 to become the first Director of Homeland Security, a new Cabinet-level position that will coordinate information from dozens of federal agencies to defend the country against domestic terrorism.
Mike McConnell, a former director of the National Security Agency and later the director of national intelligence.
Michael Chertoff, US Director of Homeland Security, said the scheme was "suggestive of an al-Qaeda plot".
Director of Social Security Yvette Mellor said it would be a fair process.
Dave Finkelstein is director of Asian security studies at the CNA Corporation.
Ms. JEAN SETZFAND (Director of Financial Security, AARP): Insensitive at best, because I think very few people are dreaming about a beach vacation.
Crowley, a former principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs and senior fellow and director of homeland security at American Progress, thinks he knows what's going on.
I've had several meetings over the last day with the director of homeland security for the city of New Orleans, who directs the police department, the fire department, emergency services.
John Bradshaw, director of customer security at UUNet, described a new type of spam that appears innocuous at first, but that shows that spammers know how to manipulate the Internet.
Home Secretary Theresa May said she had been briefed by the director general of Security Service MI5, Andrew Parker, and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe on the "sickening and barbaric" attack.
Aaron Cohen, a former member of Israel's counterterrorist special forces unit and now the director of IMS Security in Hollywood, works with numerous high-profile individuals and families, including supermodel Kate Moss.
"Amid almost every sort of problem you could imagine, Indonesia has been able to organize elections, " says Suchit Bunbongkarn, director of the Institute of Security and International Studies at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University.
When it comes to security, Census should focus on protecting its Web server, which is a prime hacker target, said Mike Zboray, vice president and research director of network security at Gartner Group.
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Mr. DAVE FINKELSTEIN (Director of Asian Security Studies, CNA Corporation): One of the hallmarks of this particular report is that it doesn't just stay in what government people would say, the military lane in the road.
In Washington, Louise Gresham, director of health security and epidemiology at the Nuclear Threat Initiative -- which also works to reduce global biological threats -- looks at a report tracking the spread of H1N1 in the Middle East.
"It's not unreasonable that the NSC and NEC both oversee the cyber czar's activities, but a powerful person may not want to be in that position, " Alan Paller, the director of the security-focused SANS Institute told Forbes in July.
Marcus Sachs, the executive director of national security policy at Verizon (nyse: VZ - news - people ), was hopeful that Chertoff's appeal to the private sector at RSA might mean more information sharing with those critical infrastructure systems.
While the virtual machines cut costs and save energy, they also raise questions about data leakage as well as whether a customer would ever find out files have been breached, said Jim Reavis, executive director of Cloud Security Alliance, a non-profit advocated for cloud security standards.
He is the director of the National Security Agency, responsible for ensuring that the backbone of the military defense system is reliable and secure.
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Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was sworn in Monday as director of the Office of Homeland Security, taking over a new Cabinet-level position charged with coordinating U.S. efforts to defend against and respond to terrorism.
Measurements taken early this week showed the hole measured 324 feet in diameter and is 50 feet deep, but in one corner it goes down 422 feet, said John Boudreaux, director of the Office of Homeland Security in Assumption Parish, about 30 miles south of Baton Rouge.
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