Fight Back Against Phishing - Email Security Insights from Paul Smocer of BITS


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Jun 12 2009 12 mins   1
Email security is an issue for businesses and agencies of all sizes. To tackle that challenge, BITS and eCert Inc. have just released a new paper entitled "Email Sender Authentication Deployment."

In an exclusive interview, Paul Smocer, VP of Security at BITS, discusses:

Top email security challenges facing organizations;
Ways to tackle those challenges;
How the information in this new paper will help.

Smocer was hired in early 2008 by BITS, a division of the Financial Services Roundtable, to lead its security program. Smocer has over 30 years' experience in security and control functions, most recently focusing on technology risk management at The Bank of New York Mellon and leading information security at the former Mellon Financial. While at Bank of New York Mellon and at Mellon, Smocer was actively engaged with BITS as a member of its Vendor Management Working Group, as 2005 Chair of its Security Steering Committee, and as 2004 Chair of its Operational Risk Committee.