IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine to Host CISO Viewpoint Panel at RSA

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. - Feb. 23, 2014 - PRLog -- LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 24 February 2014 – Cigital CTO Dr. Gary McGraw will lead a panel of security industry leaders in a discussion of how established security principles operate in today's charged security environment during IEEE Security & Privacy (http://www.computer.org/security) magazine's panel at RSA Conference 2014.

The CISO Viewpoint panel, "Security Principles Versus the Real World," (Session Code: CISO-T07) will take place from 1:20-2:20 p.m. on 25 February 2014. The panel pits an academic researcher and a security guru against real-world CISOs from Aetna and Capital One in a vigorous discussion of how the principles guiding security design align to the real world. The panel will feature:

Keith Gordon, Vice President, Information Security & Risk Management, Capital One
Marcus Ranum, Chief Security Officer, Tenable Network Security
Jim Routh, Chief Information Security Officer, Aetna, and
Eugene Spafford, Director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Security and Assurance, Purdue University

The IEEE Security & Privacy panel will be moderated by McGraw, author of numerous best-selling software security books including Software Security: Building Security in, Exploiting Software, and the groundbreaking Building Secure Software. McGraw is also producer of the popular Silver Bullet Security Podcast (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/silverbullet).

IEEE Security & Privacy magazine provides articles with both a practical and research bent by the top thinkers in the field along with case studies, tutorials, columns, and in-depth interviews and podcasts for the information security industry. To subscribe, visit http://www.computer.org/security.

RSA Conference 2014 will take place from 24-28 February 2014 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco and feature more than 300 sessions on a variety of topics. To register, visit http://www.rsaconference.com.

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