Security

Symantec names Michael Brown as new CEO

Cisco names new security chief after Young departs

14 year vet Goeckeler was instrumental in Sourcefire integration

FBI director concerned about encryption on smartphones

Yahoo reports a drop in government data requests

Cloud will be key for Oracle at OpenWorld

FAA lets movie and TV groups operate drones in national airspace, what could go wrong?

FAA grants exemptions to six companies in TV and movie industry

Why Amazon is rebooting 10% of its cloud servers

Amazon says a patch is needed to fix Xen hypervisor issue

Three new (and a few old) cloud computing challenges stymie government rollouts

U.S. government watchdog group finds common challenges across agencies looking to grow cloud computing; most issues translate into private companies as well

Virtualization, Cloud complicate insider threats for federal CIOs

The expansion and blurring of the traditional government network environment require federal IT officials to rethink contracting processes and embrace real-time security monitoring.

Amazon readies major cloud server reboot

Customers should check to see if their AWS cloud instances are affected; Xen hypervisor security bug could be to blame