position:chief information security officer

#cybersecurity Today — Darren Van Booven Interview — an episode of Sensei School’s Meet-A-Pro series
▻https://hackernoon.com/cybersecurity-today-darren-van-booven-interview-an-episode-of-sensei-sch

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Cybersecurity Today — An interview with Mr. Darren Van Boovenan episode of Sensei School’s Meet-A-Pro series.Mr. Darren Van Booven is a tech executive with over 20 years of experience. He has served in a number of senior executive positions, both in the US federal government as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the U.S. House of Representatives and the private financial sector, including seven years as a counter-intelligence officer at the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Directorate of Operations.SENSEI SCHOOL’s MEET-A-PRO interview series with Darren Van Booven.At the #cia he has been responsible for carrying out nation state intrusion investigations, incident response activities, and countering technical threats against operations. He has also worked as a senior staff (...)

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CIA expands spy work through Amazon cloud | Financial Times Barney Jopson, 24 June 2014
▻http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/10e229b8-fbbd-11e3-ad9b-00144feab7de.html

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The US spy agency already has a $600m contract in place with #Amazon – that IBM challenged unsuccessfully in the courts – under which the e-commerce group will set up and manage a private cloud computing service based on #CIA premises.

«Federal Court Rules for Amazon in CIA ’Cloud’ Contract Dispute With IBM »
▻http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304626104579122120530360230

Stephen Schmidt, AWS’s chief information security officer and a former Federal Bureau of Investigation official, did not talk about security arrangements with the CIA, but described Amazon’s general approach as “security through obscurity”.

Most AWS employees knew which countries their data centres were in, but very few knew their physical addresses. “Does our staff member need to know that information to do their job? If they don’t, they don’t get access to it,” he said.

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