World’s Online Security Leaders Come Together In Seattle

I was fortunate enough to recently represent the Authentication and Online Alliance (AOTA) at their annual summit. This year, Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, Michael Barrett, the Chief Security Officer for PayPal, Tim Callan, Vice President of Product Marketing at VeriSign, Peter Cullen, General Manager and Chief Privacy Strategist at Microsoft, Howard Schmidt, the former White House Cyber Security Officer, Rob McKenna, the Washington State Attorney General, and Hemanshu Nigram, Chief Security Officer of MySpace, among others, all spoke at the Summit. You can take a look at the presentations by clicking here.

Newmark and Daniels

(Picture of Craig Newmark, Craigslist and David Daniels, Jupiter Research, on stage at the AOTA Summit)

The summit was a two-day event full of lively discussions on how and why we should make online experiences as safe and secure as possible. Key takeaways from the event; there’s no silver bullet to making the Internet a safer place and it takes more than just technology to ensure online safety and security… it takes people power. Seems I wasn’t the only person paying attention to the summit. With at least 25 unique media stories… you may have heard of it outside of the VOXUS blog. Check out some of the links:

· USA Today (http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/)

· Seattle PI (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/365598_cybersecurity04.html)

· Seattle Times (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004458445_brier05.html)

· NPR (http://publicbroadcasting.net/kplu/news/content/1294129.html)

· KIRO-AM (http://www.mynorthwest.com/?sid=61414&nid=11)

· Computerworld (http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=web_site_management&articleId=9093719&taxonomyId=62&intsrc=kc_top)

· Network World (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/060508-more-laws-collaboration-required-for.html)

· eMarketing and Commerce (http://www.emarketingandcommerce.com/blog/just-when-you-thought-you-were-safe)

· DMNews (http://directline.dmnewsblogs.com/2008/06/04/aota-focuses-on-trust-on-heels-of-eec-trust-breach/)


Spiezle

(Poster of Craig Spiezle, AOTA Chairman and Founder)

-posted by Andrew
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