Apple has hired David Rice, executive director of the Monterey Group and faculty member with IANS, as its global director of security. It's the latest in a series of high-profile security hires for the company. Former Mozilla security chief Window Snyder was hired as a senior security product manger in March.
Mr. Rice may be familiar to some readers as the author of "Geekonomics," a book about "the astonishing lack of consumer protection in the software market and how this impacts economic and national security." Rice suggests that software is infrastructure, and the risk of a poor security