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Threat Chaos

Richard Stiennon

Great source on cyber espionage

By | February 20, 2008, 7:27am PST

I am taking a couple of days to explore the slopes at Boyne Mountain. For those of you who regularly ski the Alps and Rockies I have one thing to say. 450 foot (150m) vertical!

This is a great article by Christopher Burgess, a 30 year veteran of the CIA clandestine service (read: spook).

Now, more than eight years since the climax of the Cold War, the threat of industrial and economic espionage has percolated once again to the forefront. The tools of the intelligence collector are once again being brought out and dusted off and put to use as nations make use of what is referred to as the “second-oldest profession.” They are willing to make the political decision to support their indigenous corporations and companies with the provision of competitors’ intellectual property the old fashion way – they will just take it.

I am going to research more of Mr. Burgess’ material. Great stuff.

Back to those slopes!

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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.

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