CISOs Network at eBay Red Team Conference

Combating cybercrime a focus of annual summit

The San Jose, California campus of eBay played host to a conference of corporate information security officers this week, with the goal of finding common ground and common solutions to cybercrime.

According to an InfoWorld post of an IDG New Service story, eBay bills the 2nd Annual Red Team confab "as a networking opportunity for security professionals where they could discuss areas of common concern."

What makes the Red Team conference, which ran Monday and Tuesday, unique is that CISOs and technical staffers from other companies can attend, making it markedly different from Microsoft's annual Blue Hat event, which the InfoWorld piece says is open only to Microsoft techies.

Why such a conference?

"While companies using Internet technology may be facing a common set of problems these days, they haven't always shared information with their peers. That's because if news of a hacked server or a data breach is leaked to the press, it can become a public-relations disaster for the company involved," notes the story.

What's any of this got to do with you?

Consider a story today titled "Use of Google for Data Triggers Fears." The Associated Press report details Google Hacking, "a slick data-mining technique used by the Internet's cops and crooks alike to unearth sensitive material mistakenly posted to public Web sites."

So, all together now: "Go, Red Team, go!"