Last year, under the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft invested roughly $1 billion into security as well as doubled the number of security executives on its team, used blockchain technology to better secure online transactions and expanded its bug bounty program and new certification programs.
Former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano has had what can only be described as a pretty busy year.
When Apple CEO Tim Cook refused to comply with a federal court order to aid the FBI in cracking an iPhone 5c used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, he took a strong stand for privacy and put tech companies on the offense regarding how far they should be expected to go to meet government demands for help…and for data.
Unemployment in cybersecurity remains at zero percent, forcing corporate management to get creative when sourcing new talent.
In May, SWIFT CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt outlined a five-part plan intended to reinforce the security of the financial system.
It’s been a crazy year,” says Tarah Wheeler, website security czar at Symantec. “Security is a really amazing place and is not often exposed to the independent hacker community,” she says.
If ever an organization needed a chief information security officer (CISO) it was the federal government.
Titus Melnyk, senior manager, security architecture at FCA US, led the charge in launching the first bug bounty program for connected cars.
Albert Kwon, a Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been thinking about ways to develop more robust security methods for anonymous networks since late 2013.
With the cyberworld equivalent of Freddie Krueger, Jason and Michael Myers all bearing down, boards realize it’s time to take action. Teri Robinson reports.
