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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. He absorbed the 477-page technical tome in one weekend and returned to Redmond ready to change how Microsoft made software — prioritizing security and reliability over new features.

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Former U.S. Intelligence Personnel Turn 'Hackers-for-Hire'

SecureWorld News

Prosecutors say, “despite being informed on several occasions” that the defendants’ work required a license to be issued, they pressed on anyway. I recently attended a presentation by Chrysa Freeman, Senior Program Manager of Code42, at the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Conference. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mark J.

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IntelliDyne’s ITAC Published Top 10 Tech Trends In 2015 For Government Enterprise Infrastructure Management

CTOvision

LPTA Vs. Best Business Value – With Shared Services and Pay-Per-Use licensing, LPTA decisions will be judged on business metrics such as business impact, network efficiency and real-time reporting as part of a new evaluation paradigm. We manage public sector programs that deliver higher operational efficiency and measurable value to clients.

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How to speed up your computer

Galido

This means CCleaner is also a security tool of sorts, removing the information that can tell others what you’ve been doing with your PC. CCEnhancer is actually a plugin for CCleaner, which lets the program work with a wider variety of applications, around 500 more than what’s possible on the default version. Comodo Programs Manager.

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Meet the self-driving brains working with Volkswagen and Ford

The Verge

If you look at the car as a digital device, there’s actually an API, and a really important one that we interface with to be able to control basic things like steering and braking, and being able to do that in a safe and secure way is actually not trivial. Is it the Ford program manager for a car? Make it better.”?

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