Howard Schmidt
Howard Schmidt
Howard A. Schmidt is a partner with Tom Ridge in Ridge Schmidt Cyber LLC, a consultancy company in the field of cybersecurity. He was the Cyber-Security Coordinator of the Obama Administration, operating in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. He announced his retirement from that position on May 17, 2012, effective at the end of the month...
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In software development, we need to have personal quality assurances from developers that the code they write is secure.
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It's not about developing better patching mechanisms. The long-term answer is you just write better code.
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We see people talking about the digital Pearl Harbor from the worms and Trojans and viruses. But in all probability, there's more likelihood of what we call the 'backhoe attack' that would have more impact on a region then a Code Red, or anything we've seen so far.
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We're much stronger today than we have been ever in the past.
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It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.
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We never know whose fingers are on the keyboard on the other end.