Sony Hires Homeland Security Official To Crack Down on Hackers
With the PlayStation Network hack behind them, Sony hopes to ensure that they will be better prepared for future attacks and so have hired security professional Phillip Reitinger, who previously served as director of the U.S. National Cyber Security Center. Reitinger will come on as the senior vice president of Sony Corporation, reporting directly to general counsel Nicole Seligman.
A Sony spokesman had the following to say to Reuters about the hiring:
Certainly the network issue was a catalyst for the appointment. We are looking to bolster our network security even further.
Sony has seen it shares fall over 55 percent since the PlayStation Network was hacked back in April, with information on over 77 million user accounts being compromised. Sony has done a lot since then to repair the trust lost with consumers and share holders, and this move could go a long way towards gaining back even more of that trust, as well as helping protect the company from further embarrassment.
Before taking this position, Reitinger also worked for Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Defense.
11 Responses to “Sony Hires Homeland Security Official To Crack Down on Hackers”
Aren’t those same companies and agency that was compromised by Anonymous and Wikileaks? Does not make me confident that this guy even with his credentials could really do an effective job but he will have to prove that he has made a difference to get me to vote for him.
Both Microsoft and the Department of Defense are large enough targets that they’d be compromised no matter who was in charge of computer security.
i say 6months or less this guy will probaly be thr reason behind new psn troubles.
at least they are doing something about it to ensure that it will not happen again. GO SONY!!!!
Homeland got hacked a few months ago. This hacking thing is never ganna go away. But at least Sony is isnt stayin wit there arms crossed. There showing hackers tht thy dnt fear thm. I still dnt knw wht ppl find in hacking a company?
it’s a great start for their defenses. way to go sony. this guy is solid and knows what he’s doing. any company system can be hacked, but at least sony is stepping in the right direction with protecting their network from pirates and hackers
i say: some help is better then no help, and it’s better to be safe then sorry. good move on sony’s behalf
I like how someone is thumbing down all the comments, speaking of thumbs down where is shadowrunner he’s usually all over these threads. Maybe if I say his name 3 times he will appear. Shadowrunner, Shadowrunner, Shadow… Oh wait that was bettlejuice
who knows maybe his internet ran away
Senior Vice President? Really? See this is how hacking is ruining gaming, instead of a person who actually knows anything about gaming we have someone who used to be in charge of a US goverment agency. He won’t know anything about the politics of the games industry and won’t be much help when it comes to making the actually decisions I’m guessing the Senior vice president of Sony of Sony corp will have to make.
I get that if hackers want to modify their own devices so they can just add something neat to their consoles or do one of those console mods like make a steampunk PS3 then that’s up to them, after all they bought the console, they should have some level of control over their consoles but we all know we’re not talking about basic modding and it’s pissing me off how they constantly change the subject because of this,
“No, we don’t believe in piracy, you just don’t want us to have basic freedoms!” Bullcrap like this, all I want is for piracy to stop and in many ways the hackers are allowing this to continue. Now we get someone who clearly isn’t experianced being taken on to deal with a bunch of assholes who will drive the games industry into the ground for free games and hide behind the decent hackers when it suits them.
Good move Sony, hope you have learnt from the PSN hack and build a network that is better than any competitors