Cyber-Security Chief on Wave of Web Attacks

Posted by Kendall Harmon

The man often credited as being the father of internet defense says it's still unclear where a recent wave of hacking attacks targeting the U.S. financial industry are coming from.

Gil Shwed is the co-founder and CEO of Check Point Software Technologies. Many recognize him and the company's other co-founder, Marius Nacht, as the world's pioneers in cyber-security. Shwed developed his expertise designing systems for an elite technology unit in the Israel Defense Forces years before the internet became a daily part of our lives.

Shwed said today "Iran is definitely capable of launching these kinds of attacks but so is just about any other developed country...."

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Posted October 25, 2012 at 7:00 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. Rich Gabrielson wrote:

Heh - the “read it all” link points back to this blog entry—a cyber-attack?

October 25, 1:12 pm | [comment link]
2. Ralinda wrote:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/49544152

October 25, 1:20 pm | [comment link]
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