After the massive hacker attacks, Sony brings prominent aid from the
USA. Philip Reitinger, a former senior official of the U.S. Department
of Homeland Security as the new IT-security chief was appointed. He will
be responsible for company-wide data protection and Internet security
should be, Sony said on Tuesday. Reitinger worked previously at
Microsoft and the American Defense and Department of Justice.
Sony was shaken in April by a hacker attack, in which unknowns were able
to gain access to data from more than 100 million customers. Even in the
weeks to hackers succeeded in spite of all efforts of the group again
and again to break into websites or networks by Sony.
Sony boss Howard Stringer last week heralded a new beginning at the IFA
in Internet security. "We are flooded, flattened, shredded and burned
was," Stringer said in Berlin. "That was yesterday." Sony wants to put
his services now new and summarized on a single global platform.
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