Eddie Schwartz didn't shy away from the offer to become RSA's first chief security officer after the security firm experienced a sophisticated advanced-persistent-threat breach. Instead, Schwartz embraced the hack as the reason to take the job. (See RSA to Get Its First Chief Security Officer.)
SafeNet CEO Chris Fedde says top executives, not chief information or chief information security officers, should have final say on what data to encrypt.
"It's not enough to know the architecture of the breach system," says Michael Aisenberg of MITRE Corp. "Leaders have to understand the different jurisdiction of where they do business, where their customers are and which breach law applies."
NRC CISO Patrick Howard is among three information security leaders who share their experiences, approaches and challenges from battling data breach incidents that had an impact on their organizations and their careers.
In the wake of the RSA, Epsilon and Sony PlayStation data breaches, we spoke to two global information security leaders and asked for their three biggest leadership lessons learned. Here is what they shared.
Intel CISO Malcolm Harkins says the Sony PlayStation breach reminds CISOs in all sectors that such incidents can't be avoided, but their risks can be managed.
Hemu Nigam says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has become akin to a "cyber messiah" And Assange's followers have proven: "If you turn your back on our messiah, we are going to take you down."
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