Apple is hiring fresh personnel to beef up its security in the fight against counterfeiting and theft of its products, following yet another incident of a lost iPhone prototype.
The Cupertino-based company is searching for two experienced professionals to bump up its “new product security”. These workers would join a team at the $350-billion company that has included ex-FBI agents and other highly trained pros with backgrounds in intelligence and law enforcement. Geez, is this a tech company or a government defense contractor we’re talking about?
It should come as no surprise as to how Apple is hush-hush about its security problems, but Jim Stickley, co-founder of corporate security consulting firm TraceSecurity defended the tech giant’s paranoia saying “corporate espionage, that’s big money. Billion-dollar money. The paranoia is justified,” he added “whatever they’re trying to do, their competitors want to know. Everybody wants to know.”
Stickly’s statement may be true, as recent pictures of the alleged iPhone 5 case have surfaced online, suggesting that someone must have had their hands on the coveted device. Regardless, Apple is locking up its security, and it plans to shut down any and everything that’ll bring harm to its brand. Honestly, it’s about time they started to crack down on those fake black market iPhone devices.
That said, like Gary Kessler, director of the information assurance program at Norwich University said in the Associated Press report, “even the best-trained security team in the world can only do so much to protect against someone in a bar who may have been drinking and may have been showing off the most sought-after secret product in the world.” I’d have to agree with his overall premise; Apple can’t prevent every breach from happening, but it can get better at protecting its brand.
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