RSA Chief: Last Year's Breach Has Silver Lining 49
alphadogg writes "Last year's industry-shaking RSA Security breach has resulted in customers' CEOs and CIOs engaging much more closely with the vendor to improve their organizations' security, according to the head of RSA. Discussing the details of the attack that compromised its SecurID tokens has made RSA sought after by companies that want to prevent something similar from happening to them, Executive Chairman Art Coviello said in an interview with Network World. 'If there's a silver lining to the cloud that was over us from April through over the summer it is the fact that we've been engaged with customers at a strategic level as never before,' Coviello says, 'and they want to know in detail what happened to us, how we responded, what tools we used, what was effective and what was not.'"
Re:Silver Lininig for their Bottom Line (Score:2, Informative)
Tokens were replaced for free...but don't let the facts get in the way of a good story!
its amazing what publicity (Score:3, Informative)
you can get out of a bit of damage control
Really though, as a customer, you don't look favorably at your security vendor waiting until after a serious breach to refine their processes. You pay them the big dollars because they're supposed to already know what they're doing and have good practice already in place the day you shake hands.
This is just their P.R. people clawing for some way to put a little positive spin on their blunder.