{"id":5444,"date":"2014-04-29T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=5444"},"modified":"2014-04-28T16:21:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T23:21:32","slug":"assessing-snowden-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/assessing-snowden-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing \u201cThe Snowden Effect\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were in New York for the recent Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit then you probably caught Rick Howard, our CSO, participating in a cybersecurity panel all about \u201cThe Snowden Effect.\u201d Read on for Rick\u2019s feedback:<\/p>\n<p><center><div style=\"max-width:100%\" data-width=\"500\"><span class=\"ar-custom\" style=\"padding-bottom:75%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5447 lozad\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-14-500x375.jpeg\" alt=\"photo 1[4]\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-14-500x375.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-14-230x172.jpeg 230w, https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-14-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-14-53x40.jpeg 53w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/center><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg\u2019s Michael Riley brought together representatives from the IT security community to focus on what Edward Snowden\u2019s revelations about the NSA mean for industries and governments throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>As a vocal participant in the panel, Rick highlighted the importance of information sharing, and that one \u201ceffect\u201d of the Snowden revelations was to spark a greater discussion of privacy and boundaries \u2013 including what an informed public should expect from agencies like the NSA.<\/p>\n<p>Rick also discussed how security vendors, specifically Palo Alto Networks, should stay focused on making great products and solving today\u2019s toughest cybersecurity challenges with better threat intelligence. \u201cSnowden or not, as an industry we should all be focused on upping our game,\u201d Howard said.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/cloud\/bloomberg-summit-speakers-weigh-threat-to-it-vendors-from-public-cloud.html#sthash.OJMDaHFE.dpuf\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\"  target=\"_blank\">eWeek article<\/a> that highlights Rick\u2019s commentary and also other takeaways from the event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were in New York for the recent Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit then you probably caught Rick Howard, our CSO, participating in a cybersecurity panel all about \u201cThe Snowden Effect.\u201d Read &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[120,430,345],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity-2","tag-cybersecurity","tag-nsa","tag-rick-howard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5452,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions\/5452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}