Business Chief USA December 2019
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INTERPUBLIC GROUP<br />
92<br />
“Every single<br />
person that owns<br />
a smartphone,<br />
tablet, smart<br />
watch, even a<br />
smart fridge,<br />
is under attack,<br />
every minute<br />
of every day”<br />
—<br />
Chris White,<br />
Deputy <strong>Chief</strong> Information Security Officer,<br />
Interpublic Group (IPG)<br />
“There is a global war going on in<br />
cyberspace. There are criminal elements,<br />
state-sponsored elements – that classic<br />
idea of the kid in the hoodie in his<br />
mom’s basement doesn’t even scrape<br />
the surface.” Far from attempting to<br />
instill mass panic, White’s tone is one<br />
of reassurance. “Inevitably people<br />
hear that and say ‘well now I’m afraid<br />
to go outside’, so to speak. What do<br />
we do now? The answer is just to<br />
behave normally. There’s no sense in<br />
becoming a doomsday prepper, living<br />
in a bunker with the phone lines cut,<br />
because all the companies that make<br />
and support everything you do at home<br />
and for work, they understand that<br />
cybersecurity is critical to doing business.<br />
That’s why they have guys like<br />
me who are doing our absolute best<br />
to protect you.”<br />
White’s career in cybersecurity<br />
started in the US Air Force, working as<br />
a signals intelligence operative around<br />
the dawn of the internet. Over the<br />
course of a 30 year career on the front<br />
lines of cybersecurity, he has developed<br />
a wide breadth of experience in<br />
security automation and telecommunications.<br />
He took on his current<br />
DECEMBER <strong>2019</strong>
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