Howard A. Schmidt is best known for his roles at Microsoft and the White House during George W. Bush s first term. Schmidt is a member of the generation of security experts who had full and varied careers before they ever got involved in information security. Schmidt has been down this road before, he knows all too well what the challenges, obstacles and pitfalls are. He knows he ll have to work largely without a net, having no budgetary authority to use as a hammer.
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