Instead of holding state-wide authority, the chief information security officer was often in the position of coordinating cross-agency resources.
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We have a large IT security staff overseen by a Chief Information Security Officer who works to identify and implement best practices.
Yet another impediment to addressing the risk is the lack of wide authority vested in the role of chief information security officer, Robinson explained.
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We created the office of the Chief Information Security Officer beginning in 1995 with the appointment of Steve Katz at Citi Corp, the very first CISO.
Last Wednesday, Wells Fargo's chief information security officer, Rich Baich, said companies need to think in advance about how so-called hacktivist groups, which use cyberattacks as tools of political or social protest, might respond to actions they takes at any point in time.
In a press release on the Playstation Network blog, spokesperson Patrick Seybold added a lengthy explanation of how the company plans to respond to the hack, including adding new layers of security, changing how it encrypts customer data, and appointing a chief information security officer.
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That said, the going forward approach then is to have a process for reporting seemingly disparate small security issues, and having a person to report them to (in most organizations a chief information security officer or CISO) who can put them all together in the context of a larger attack.
"Timeline aggregates all posts you've ever done into the Timeline, and it basically could have posts that you don't want to be seen aggregated in there for people that shouldn't have seen and will now see them, " said Jacques Erasmus, chief information and security officer at Internet security firm Webroot Inc.
Four Americans were killed during the attack: information officer Sean Smith, security staffers Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, and U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
Hire a Chief Security Officer and associated staff that will focus solely on issues relating to information security.
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So has software maker BEA Systems, which uses Open Harbor to help block Web activity and downloads by nations or parties under U.S. security restrictions, says BEA Chief Information Officer Rhonda Hocker.
Com and chief operating officer of The Security Experts, an information security consulting firm in Seminole, Fla.
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Three people -- Stevens, Foreign Service information management officer Sean Smith and a U.S. security officer -- were inside at the time, according to the senior administration officials who briefed reporters Wednesday afternoon.
Russell Dietz is vice president and chief technology officer at SafeNet, a global leader in information security, and has more than 25 years of technology experience in the data management, security, embedded and distributed systems industries.
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Mr. Panetta said they spent roughly 20 minutes of the session briefing the president on the chaos at the American Embassy in Cairo and the attack in Benghazi, which eventually cost the lives of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, security personnel Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, and information officer Sean Smith.
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Spectators watch the proceedings behind soundproof glass, and receive audio on a 40-second delay so that a court security officer can switch on a white noise machine while classified information is being discussed.
Mr Tazhayakov was not sent to a second officer when he arrived, because there was no information to indicate he was a national security threat, said Peter Boogaard, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security.
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.
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