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Sony hires a US Department of Homeland Security official
GAMING CONSOLE MAKER Sony has hired a former US Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defence official to fill its primary security post after a series of large scale attacks on its gaming networks by hackers earlier this year.
The position of chief information security officer and senior vice president will be filled by Philip Reitinger, who previously worked as director for the US National Cyber Security Centre and executive director for the US Department of Defence Cyber Crime Center, which gives him plenty of experience with cybercrime.
Reitinger will report to Nicole Seligman, executive vice president and general legal counsel for Sony US, suggesting that the appointment will not just be about bumping up security, but will also involve tracking down some of the people behind this year's attacks.
Reitinger has also previously worked for Microsoft as chief security strategist, so he also has experience working with top technology firms.
"Certainly the network issue was a catalyst for the appointment," said a Sony spokesperson, according to Reuters. "We are looking to bolster our network security even further."
The attacks against Sony's Playstation Network and Qriocity services began in April, resulting in over 100 million user accounts, including credit card details, being exposed. The networks were taken offline for a number of weeks, with full services not resuming in some regions until July. Sony's online gaming service that runs Everquest and Star Wars Galaxies was also attacked.
At the time Sony vowed to involve law enforcement, but so far there has been little success in finding and prosecuting the people responsible for the attacks. Perhaps hiring Reitinger will help. If not, he might at least be able to help improve security to prevent another costly hacking incident. µ
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There are certain steps to having security, 3 steps in fact.
step 1) have a firewall
step 2) have a sandbox on that firewall
step 3) have a branch that holds the firewall and sandbox that can't affect other branches.
On a plant, some leaves go bad, but not all do. So to use this for security in IT you have the firewall and sandbox separated from other sandbox-firewalls so you create streams.
Streams hold certain communication.
Streams hold specific communication.
The leaf will die, but not all leaves have too.
Prune the dead leaf and regrow it.
This is where it gets tough in my eyes.When previous government employees work for the private sector and vise versa. It must be hard when all your contacts will be your previous employer. Is it any wonder that it gets harder to distinguish between Government and Corporations, when both sides float their employees back and forth. Out of the two I would like to see the government hire more from within, then hire Corporate sleazebags whose only goal is to push their past employers agenda.
I expect this guy is hired not for 'expertise' in the area of security but because he has contacts with the 'right' people, so sony can be even more extra-constitutional controlling the people.
There seems to be a battle amongst those companies like sony and apple as to who can be most immoral.
The only purpose of this stunt is to "assure" tech illiterate customers that security is now magically fixed and that their information @ Sony is now secure.
The reality is this does not fix the fundamental flaws of today's corporations' acquisition of software and IT maintenance. You simple cannot have a "lowest bidder wins and we hire cheapo staff" philosophy and a subsequently get a strong security. Quality costs money, in workmanship and staffing.