Microsoft to appoint security chief
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft plans to appoint a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney to its top security position, company sources said Thursday. Scott Charney, currently the principal for digital risk management and forensics at PricewaterhouseCoopers, will assume the position of chief security strategist on April 1, overseeing the software giant's internal and product security policies.
Before he joined PricewaterhouseCoopers, Charney served as the chief of the computer crime and intellectual property section of the U.S. Department of Justice, between 1991 and 1999. Security has become a critical issue for the software giant.