HP Innovation Journal Issue 10: Fall 2018 | Page 21
AN INTERVIEW WITH
HP'S SECURITY ADVISORY BOARD
For decades, hackers fell squarely into two camps: “black
hats”—initially in it to show off their skills and then, later,
for money, espionage and data theft—and “white hats,” who
breached systems to uncover flaws before the bad guys could
find them and ensured that companies promptly fixed them.
More recently, destruction for destruction’s sake has
become a new hallmark of the global cyber-threat landscape.
The foremost examples of this were the ransomware and
destructive malware attack campaigns we saw in 2017
(Wannacry, Petya, NoPetya) that rendered computers unusable
all over the globe before the devastation was halted. With
malicious actors everywhere looking for any vulnerability to
exploit, one key to surviving the constant escalation of threats
is to keep reinventing how we stay ahead of the game.
This is a challenge to which HP continues to rise, investing
in security innovation and research and leading the industry
by constantly raising the state of the art in endpoint security
across our portfolio. More recently, we took an extra step by
setting up our own Security Advisory Board, bringing a trio of
outside security experts inside the company to work with
our own security technologists and strategists. The advisory
board will help us be the sharpest we can be about what the
future holds: understanding the threat landscape today and
being able to address the real problems of tomorrow.
All three board members have unique firsthand experience
in the world of hacking, with backgrounds that span offensive
and defensive security and views of both operational and R&D
security challenges.
This new board builds on HP’s twenty years of leadership in
cybersecurity. As the world’s largest PC manufacturer and
leading maker of printers, HP has driven a slew of security
innovations, from technology that provides cryptographically
secure updates of a device’s BIOS to run-time intrusion
detection, which checks for anomalies and automatically
reboots when an intrusion is detected.
Q:
We invited our board members to talk to the Innovation
Journal about their experience.
“You recently joined our new Security Advisory Board,
at a time when cybersecurity is clearly top-of-mind for
our customers. What motivates you to help advise HP
on our current and future security strategy, and on our
role in helping customers navigate the threat landscape?”
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