Sony Just Hired a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Sony-Names-ExDHS-Director-to-Oversee-Security-Strategy-729811/

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.
...
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.
...
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