Government Information Security Podcast

Interview with David Matthews, Deputy CISO, City of Seattle David Matthews, like other government information security officials, knows the security problems social networks present. And like his cohorts in municipal, state and federal governments across the nation, Matthews - deputy chief information security officer of the city of Seattle -has little choice but to support social networks, especially considering the city's top elected officials use them. "The first thing we had to admit was that the horse is long gone out of the barn and there's really nothing we can do about it at this point," Matthews says in an interview with GovInfoSecurity.com. "Users including council members, the mayor, everybody else are using social network, either personally or for city business. There are a few of them that have bothered to ask about what we thought about it on the security side of things, but the vast majority has just gone ahead and done it." Social networks is one of the challenges Matthews discussed in this