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- Who's accountable (or liable) for software security?
- Bruce Schneier has added his viewpoint to the debate that started with Howard Schmidt's comment that programmers should be held personally accountable for the quality of their code. In a Wired News column, Schneier writes: He's on the right track, but he's made a dangerous mistake. It's the software manufacturers...
- Tags: software, Bruce Schneier, Howard Schmidt
- Blog posts 2005-10-20
- Hold developers accountable, not liable, for flaws
- A story on ZDNet on making code more secure quotes Howard Schmidt, former White House cybersecurity adviser as well as Microsoft and eBay security czar and now CEO of R&H Security Consulting, about holding developers accountable not liable for the code they write (the headline on the story, "Expert: Hold...
- Tags: Howard Schmidt
- Blog posts 2005-10-12
Additional Resources
- Delays, delays on White House cyber positions.
- Where is the cybersecurity czar? And the White House intellectual property coordinator? The folks for those important federal tech positions have been chosen but there is no sign of announcements being made, NextGov says. The likely nominees for cyberczar: Howard Schmidt, former White House special adviser...
- Tags: Job, White House, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- FTC investigating Google-Apple ties
- It was back in 2006 that Google CEO Eric Schmidt joined Apple's board at Steve Jobs' behest. At the time, the pundits were full of speculation about the meaning of this appointment. The speculation ranged from some sort of integration between advertising and iTunes to Apple...
- Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Antitrust, Apple Inc., FTC, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Placing bets on proposed cyberczar position
- President-elect Obama should appoint a Center for Cybersecurity Operations and appoint a cyberczar to oversee its operations, according to a report by the U.S. Commission on Cybersecurity. According to Business Week: Active policing of government and corporate networks would include new rules and a "red...
- Tags: Cybersecurity, CRN, Powell, Government, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- News to know: Apple patches; D6 coverage; Yahoo; Google I/O
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Leopard mega-patch plugs 41 security holes Jason O'Grady: Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3 software update Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update Google: Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts Psystar offering new...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, I/O, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- RSA wrap-up: Facing security dangers
- Conference attendees share views on cyberthreatsAt the 2007 RSA Conference in San Francisco, ZDNet Editor-in-Chief Dan Farber talks with security expert Howard Schmidt about topics ranging from Windows Vista to the White House's role in fighting cyberthreats.
- Tags: Cyberthreats, RSA Security Inc., security
- Whiteboards 2007-02-12
- RSA 2007: The final word on cybersecurity
- Video: At the RSA 2007 Conference in San Francisco we talked to some attendees about what they considered to be the biggest cybersecurity threats, and I caught up with Howard Schmidt, former White House cybersecurity czar, Chief Security Strategist for the US CERT Partners Program and chief security officer at...
- Tags: cybersecurity, General, RSA 2007, Security
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- School Loan Information
- Sharon Gaudin reports in InformationWeek on a little problem at the US Department of Education: seems they forgot to test a software upgrade before deploying it on their website. Well, I suppose its no big deal&well, except to the 21,000 people whose personal information was exposed on the web for...
- Tags: Project failures, Government projects
- Blog posts 2006-10-03
- Google to content owners: you will be compensated, maybe
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt has recently been touting what he says is Google’s desire to compensate content owners, as I present in “Google royalty-free content: fair use, or foul play?”Google CEO Eric Schmidt extolled the virtues of “financial sharing” in content partnerships during the company’s Q2 investor conference call last...
- Tags: Google Inc., P10
- Blog posts 2006-08-14
- Preempting data warfare: The art of comprehensive vulnerability management
- This sample chapter, taken from Larstan's the Black Book on Corporate Security, discusses the importance of comprehensive vulnerability management. Comprehensive vulnerability management reduces exposure and risks from security incidents that might otherwise occur as a result of having longer time intervals between inspections.This sample chapter, taken from...
- Tags: Corporate Security, Larstan Publishing, Vulnerability Management, Security
- Book chapters 2005-12-02
- Hold developers accountable, not liable, for flaws
- Hold developers accountable, not liable, for flawsaccountable is fine;;; ---- liable for ?How many of the early cars built could go 1000 miles without breaking down. The engine when running made the sound of exploding fireworks. This was the early days of the automobile industry....
- Tags: accountability, programmer, software, virus, vunerability
- Discussion threads 2005-10-13
- The debate on software malpractice
- In Tom Espiner's story about former White House cyber-security adviser Howard Schmidt and liability for software flaws, a security representative of the BCS British Computer Society said that Schmidt had suggested personal accountability for software developers on the software they write. The article was mistakenly titled "Expert: Hold...
- Tags: software, software company
- Blog posts 2005-10-13
- More Data Losses
- CitiBank is the latest to report loss of data back up tapes. When, oh when, will the financial services entities discover encryption?Here at the Gartner IT Security Summit in DC there have been some GREAT sessions already. One moment in particular stands out. Bob Woodward moderated a panel of...
- Tags: Bob Woodward
- Blog posts 2005-06-06
- N+I : Where Companies Go To Die.
- Wandering the expo hall at the Mandalay conference center here in Las Vegas I cannot help thinking about the last Network World + Interop show I attended. I was speaking in Cosine Communications’ booth at N+I Atlanta, 2001. That was 9/11. The show was cut short as...
- Tags: Nexsi, N+I Atlanta
- Blog posts 2005-05-05
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