Yoran

“Because there is no visible catastrophic outcome, we lie in bed at night asleep without realizing how much damage is being done,” said Yoran.

White House urged to stop cyber attacks 2009

Amit Yoran, CEO of security firm NetWitness and a former senior official in the Department of Homeland Security, responded that the U.S. has been “experiencing a 9/11 in cyberattacks” for a number of years.

White House urged to stop cyber attacks 2009

Amit Yoran: It provides each user of cyberspace -- basically, everyone on the Internet -- with timely information [about viruses], which is accurate and actionable, so they know what they can do to protect themselves.

'We're Making Rapid Progress' 2007

NEWSWEEK's Jennifer Barrett spoke to Yoran about the new National Cyber Alert System and the division's other plans for improving cyber security.

'We're Making Rapid Progress' 2007

Yoran has held various positions since the 1990s in which he oversaw computer security for the Dept. of Defense computers.

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Yoran has privately confided to industry colleagues his frustrations in recent months over what he considers the department's lack of attention paid to computer security issues, according to lobbyists and others who recounted these conversations on condition they not be identified because the talks were personal.

10/01/2004 2004

Amit Yoran, a former software executive from Symantec Corp., made his resignation effective Thursday as director of the National Cyber Security Division, giving a single's day notice of his intention to leave.

10/01/2004 2004

One said that she had conducted a survey of the Jews living in the small village of Pound Ridge in the 1970s and she would have remembered if a wealthy Israeli family named Yoran had been found.

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About 95% of software bugs come from 19 'common, well-understood' programming mistakes, Yoran said, and his division pushed for automation tools that comb software code for those mistakes.

Archive 2004-12-01 Jim Horning 2004

About 95% of software bugs come from 19 'common, well-understood' programming mistakes, Yoran said, and his division pushed for automation tools that comb software code for those mistakes.

Former cybersecurity czar: Code-checking tools needed Jim Horning 2004