HP Innovation Journal Special Edition: Security | Page 10

Q & A
Security Advisory
Board Interview
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 f laws 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 (Wan-
nacry, 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, invest-
ing 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, bring-
ing 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 land-
scape today and being able to address the real problems of
tomorrow. All three board members have unique first-hand
experience in the world of hacking, with a background that
spans offensive and defensive security, with a view of both
operational and R&D security challenges.

This new board builds on HP’s 20 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 cryptographi-
cally secure updates of a device’s BIOS to run-time intrusion
detection, which checks for anomalies and automatically
reboots when an intrusion is detected.

Today we invited our board members to talk to the Inno-
vation Journal about their experience.
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Q
“
YOU RECENTLY JOINED OUR
NEW SECURITY ADVISORY
BOARD, AT A TIME WHEN
CYBER SECURITY IS CLEARLY
TOP OF MIND FOR OUR
CUSTOMERS. WHAT
MOTIVATES YOU TO HELP
ADVISE HP ON OUR CUR-
RENT AND FUTURE SECURITY
STRATEGY AND ON OUR
ROLE IN HELPING
CUSTOMERS NAVIGATE THE
“
THREAT LANDSCAPE?