Paul Fisher

The youthful president and CEO of Veracode tells Paul Fisher why SaaS is the only way forward for vulnerability scanning. The RSA conference in April marked one year almost to the day since Dave DeWalt left EMC and took over the reins as CEO of McAfee. The serial company founder and SC's CEO of the Year tells Paul Fisher why he knew all along that data-centric security was the future. RSA's chief technology officer thinks security should be left to experts. He tells Paul Fisher why he's no fan of employee awareness training. The Qualys CEO firmly believes the internet has taken over from software -which is why Bill Gates is in trouble. Philippe Courtot, without any obvious irony, describes himself as a "child of the internet". Unusual for a chief executive but, as this interview progresses, it becomes clear that the 61-year-old sees himself as a most unusual CEO. He is referring to his time spent at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, where he witnessed the birth of the web under the aegis of Tim Berners-Lee.
IronPort's charismatic CEO puts his success down to having tasted failure in the past. He talks to Paul Fisher SC Magazine's UK editor about living with Cisco. Co-founder and CEO of Trend Micro, Eva Chen discusses a wide range of subjects touched on financials, industry moves and trends, and the opportunities provided by the emerging markets of India and China. MessageLab's CEO and co-founder are determined to get a bigger slice of the American pie. Paul Fisher meets two men on a mission. Industry figures unite in condemnation of the UK Government's handling of the loss of 25 million child benefit records - thought to include the name and address of every child in Britain, and bank account details of carers and parents. Betfair's global head of security seems to have it all: bosses who listen, resources most of us can only dream of, and youth. Forgotten and mislaid passwords could be a thing of the past. A German start-up claims its typing recognition system will solve the problems associated with traditional password authentication. A background in banking has given the ScanSafe CEO and co-founder the drive and confidence to tackle the market head-on. Check Point used its annual EMEA customer and partner event, Check Point Experience, to announce a vision of "pure security". Reports of millions of financial records exposed brings renewed calls for UK breach laws. A new report from the UK National Audit Office has found that 70 percent of central Government departments are risking their own security by failing to ensure that sensitive data is being wiped from PCs before being disposed of, according to mobile encryption oufit, SafeBoot. New worm targets nostalgia for Nintendo games: attachment could cause havoc. Why the co-founder and CTO of AppGate came up with a solution for deperimeterisation before anyone had ever heard of it. SurfControl's CEO may be a relative newcomer to the infosec world, but she is already pursuing an aggressive growth policy for the security vendor, Paul Fisher reports. Deloitte's corporate logo has a very deliberate green full stop at the end. It suggests that what the company offers is backed up by solid expertise and decades of experience and thought. Potential clients need look no further. This is the complete package. End of story.
Adobe has been demonstrating a development of the Breeze online conferencing software it gained through its merger with Macromedia last year. Details are still embargoed, but at a briefing given to the UK press in July, one thought occurred: how secure is this kind of technology?