Microsoft Security Strategist Named Cybersecurity Leader – Finally shopping at the “Smart Store”

This is good news with getting some of the experts on board with the Department of Homeland Security and also important:

"Phil Reitinger is a recognized expert on computer security and understands the importance of working with the private sector," TechAmerica president Phil Bond said in a statement.”

Open Source is not a cure all, just as the private sector is not a cure all either, a combination of both usually wins, so when it comes to privacy and security we have someone who has been on both sides here, DOD and Microsoft, finally getting to the “hands on” folks and perhaps a few less magpies. BD

Reitinger has "Phil Reitinger is a recognized expert on computer security and understands the importance of working with the private sector," TechAmerica president Phil Bond said in a statement. been responsible for improving and protecting the security of information and infrastructure at Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), where he has served as chief trustworthy infrastructure strategist. In that role, he worked closely with government agencies and other private companies on cybersecurity programs. He is a member of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Advisory Committee and considered an expert on computer crime and policy.

He has also served as the Department of Defense's executive director of the cybercrime center and he was deputy chief of the Department of Justice's computer crime and intellectual property division. Reitinger has a law degree from Yale Law School and a bachelor's in electrical engineering and computer science from Vanderbilt University.

Microsoft Security Strategist Named Cybersecurity Leader -- Cybersecurity -- InformationWeek