Apple Inc.


Window Snyder Security and Privacy Product Manager


Since 2005, Snyder has lead cyber urity


security efforts at three popular tech companies. The programming protégée says she learned BASIC at age five from


her Kenyan mother, unsurprising in a home where both parents were programmers. Later the math and computer science ”geek” discovered cryptography; that led to cyber security. At 34, she works at Apple, which remains mum when asked to talk about what happens at its offices, or who works for it. But Snyder, who was hired in March, is in a perfect spot, since corporations as well as consumers are swapping Blackberries for iPhones or iPads increasingly. Prior to Apple, she led security at the Mozilla Foundation, with its open source process and Firefox browser. She wrangled 20,000 independent programmers, shared information with out- side security researchers, and tossed out old code. During three earlier years at Microsoft Snyder worked on


Windows server 2003, Windows XP, and set up a process to meet with both white and black hat hackers. In a 2006 interview with CNET, Snyder revealed her man- tra: “Nothing is secure, so there definitely is an opportunity to make it better.” At the 2008 IT Security World conference, she said that Apple would benefit from being more open about its security issues.


Arcsight-An HP Company


Hugh Njemanze CTO and Executive Vice President ArcSight is a Cuper-


tino, California market-leading company that provides security information, as well as event and log management solutions for private concerns and public agencies. Hugh Njemanze, a native Nigerian, co-founded Arcsight in 2000; he had previ-


ously been chief technology officer with Verity, which provided information retrieval software products. He is responsible for information technology deployment, product development, and product research.


The specialist in software applications and innovation had previously worked at Apple Computer, Network Innovations, and Hewlett Packard. In a July 2010 interview with Scmaga- zineUk.com, Njemanze spoke about why he co-founded Arc- sight. He saw that there were not enough specifically-designed security information and event management tools. So he created a more productive way to capture and display information from firewalls, intrusion detections system, and operating system logs. “I set out to build a tool to extract information out of the logs, report on actionable incidents and allow people to drill down into all this information,” he said.


So much of our professional and personal lives are spent online that cyber security issues have become global concerns.


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In 2010, Njemanze was selected from more than 100 com- petitors as a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010 Award in Northern California.


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