Sony CEO Talks About Improving Cyber Security

By Nick Baumfeld
Posted on May 31, 2011 AT 12:39pm

The attacks on Sony came with warnings, threats were issued and yet Sony still got hit by them.

Sony CEO Howard Stringer has said that he didn’t believe there was any lack of vigilance on Sony’s part but he personally wasn’t aware of the threats.

“Obviously our network security didn’t stop the attack and we’re trying
to understand why, and we’ve made big strides in bolstering our
security,”

He said that due to the PlayStation Network being a free service he didn’t feel that the theft of passwords and personal data was very likely.

“We have a network that gave people services free, It didn’t seem like the likeliest place for an attack.”

The question is has Sony actually learnt its lesson this time?

Source: Bloomberg

Bio: Nick Baumfeld has been involved in the video game industry for a good 12 years. He has seen the industry from all view points and has a background in websites, website integration and social media. Nick pioneered the online video game rental business back in the day, moved forward into online video game trading and then moved viral with the well received Video Games Application on Facebook. Today, he has joined up with EGM founder Steve Harris to create something truly unique and special; EGMNOW, a community dedicated to all manner of gamers.

Gaming MO: Nick is a first person shooter type of gamer and enjoys heated bouts of Halo with friends and family (even while being schooled by his children).

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