Purdy Tapped as Cyber-Security Director
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The Department of Homeland Security has filled the nation's top cyber-security post after the previous chief abruptly resigned last week, choosing the former director's deputy to take over the position. -washingtonpost.com
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Washington -- The nation&#39;s top cyber-security official has resigned unexpectedly, raising new questions about the progress of efforts to protect the nation&#39;s vast computer networks from terror attacks, electronic viruses and other threats, government and
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Howard Schmidt, now at eBay, will chair Homeland Security Dept.'s Computer Emergency Response Team.
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James Hughes, CIO of National City Corp., has been tapped by the Federal Home Loan Corp. to be that agency's new senior vice president and CIO.
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McAfee's board of directors on Monday named former EMC executive Dave DeWalt as the security software company's chief executive officer and president.
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The US has a new head of cyber security, a week after his predecessor suddenly resigned.
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Yoran was a software executive with Symantec Corporation when he was tapped a year ago to become director of the National Cyber Security Division in the Department of Homeland Security.
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GEORGE BUSH has chosen Bernard Kerik, the former New York police commissioner who helped to oversee the response to the September 11 attacks, to run the Department of Homeland Security.
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InfoWorld - VeriSign, a vendor of cybersecurity products and operator of the .com and .net top-level domains, has replaced CEO Stratton Sclavos with a member of its board of directors.
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Quick and determined action RSA The US's latest chief of cyber security has pledged quick and determined action to protect the nation's critical infrastructure from attack.â¦
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Robert Howard told a U.S. Senate committee last week that the VA is in the process of installing encryption software on all its laptops during confirmation hearings on his appointment to assistant secretary for information and technology of the agency.
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VeriSign, a vendor of cybersecurity products and operator of the .com and .net top-level domains, has replaced CEO Stratton Sclavos with a member of its board of directors.
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Cybertrust will combine identity management and PKI products from Betrusted, risk management and compliance services from TruSecure, and intrusion detection and prevention technology from Ubizen, a subsidiary of Betrusted.
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As director of research at the SANS Institute, Alan Paller has a unique window from which to view the U.S. governmentâs efforts to secure its vast computer networks. An original member of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, Paller has had the ear of high-level White House officials.Â  Paller has also been a reliable critic of the governmentâs cybersecurity plans, which he says are ineffective and mired in bureaucracy.
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In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA and other intelligence agencies, has hired an Intel Corp. manager with a background in cyber security as its new chief executive.
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The man in charge of the FBI's Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch has been tapped by Verizon to head that company's security efforts.
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Leading the charge in Web security at Google, vice president of engineering stands at the forefront of a critical period.