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A former ZDNet blogger, Richard Stiennon is an industry consultant. Most recently he was Chief Marketing Officer for Fortinet, Inc., the largest privately held security vendor. prior to that he was Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest. And before creating IT-Harvest, he was VP of threat research for Webroot Software, Inc. the leading commercial anti-spyware solution.

Previously, Richard was VP Research at Gartner, Inc. where he covered security topics including firewalls, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, security consulting and managed security services for the Security and Privacy group. He is a holder of Gartner's Thought Leadership award for 2003 and was named "One of the 50 most powerful people in Networking" by NetworkWorld magazine. His speaking engagements have included conferences and meetings throughout North and South America, Hawaii, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Milan, Munich, Hannover, Madrid, London, and Cannes.

About Threat Chaos

Richard Stiennon delivers a timely, succinct exploration of cyber threats, hack attacks, crime on the web, and information warfare.

  • Moving on

    By Richard Stiennon | March 9, 2008, 11:00am PDT

    I travel a lot. It has been almost ten years since I had a job that was based in the same place I live. Whenever I get a call from friends and family the first question I get is “where are...

  • Judge releases Wikileaks

    By Richard Stiennon | February 29, 2008, 8:46pm PST

    All it took was a little representation. That is one trouble with the US legal system. You have to show up to defend yourself. The guys at Wikileaks.org were effecitvely put out of business by...

  • Oil field data loss just common theft

    By Richard Stiennon | February 29, 2008, 8:55am PST

    Sighs of relief can be heard coming from Brazil this week as police arrested four men (port security guards) responsible for heisting some computers that had lots of data from the newly discovered...

  • Declan on Wikileaks

    By Richard Stiennon | February 27, 2008, 4:02pm PST

    The news today is that several free speech advocates are stepping into the fray over Wikileaks. See Declan McCullagh’s coverage. I love his syllogism: [Shutting down Wikileaks is] like...

  • Only 8,700 insecure ftp servers?

    By Richard Stiennon | February 27, 2008, 3:51pm PST

    According to ComputerWorld coverage Finjan is publicizing a source in Hong Kong they have discovered that offers to sell access to hacked ftp servers. The idea is that a malware purveyor or...

  • You can keep on asking...

    By Richard Stiennon | February 26, 2008, 8:55am PST

    But you have to ask the right questions. Two senators have sent a letter to 24 US agencies asking them to report on their progress in data protection. This article at Federal Computer Week...

  • Pakistan removed from the Internet

    By Richard Stiennon | February 24, 2008, 1:40pm PST

    4:30 PM Eastern (US). The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan’s traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious...

  • Pakistan declares war on YouTube

    By Richard Stiennon | February 24, 2008, 12:36pm PST

    What could at first have been just one of those days on the Internet where some newbie engineer accidentally announces a spurious route and takes out a segment of the network has turned into an...

  • Pakistan takes out YouTube

    By Richard Stiennon | February 24, 2008, 12:16pm PST

    Like I said in a recent post, the Internet is a series of tubes. Sometimes that helps route around malicious legislation and regulators, sometimes it causes big problems. Like today at 2 PM...

  • Get a clue Morocco

    By Richard Stiennon | February 22, 2008, 10:38pm PST

    Do you ever get the feeling that the people around you are missing out on a major shift in the way the world works? Try explaining lolcats to your grandfather for instance. I feel sorry for the...

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