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Podcast: Careers Information Security Podcast
Episode: Creatively Securing IT: Melissa Hathaway, White House Cybersecurity Policy Review Leader
Description: Government and business must think creatively to help safeguard America's digital assets, says Melissa Hathaway, the former White House acting senior director for cybersecurity who led President Obama's 60-day cybersecurity policy review.
Hathaway, an interview with GovInfoSecurity.com, cited the innovative coupling of cell phone and global positioning technologies to authenticate a user withdrawing money from an ATM or making a credit card purchase. With the cell phone turned on, a GPS can verify that the consumer is where the transaction takes place.
"That's not what cell phones were originally designed for, but I thought it was a...