Every Follow Friday, we round up a list of people with active Twitter accounts, ones that we feel are worth a click on the ‘follow’ button.
This week, we’re focusing on experts in encryption and information security. Our sister publication, ITWorld Canada, just held a Twitter chat on how businesses can use encryption to safeguard their data, and we heard some great insights from chat participants.
Another day, another class action lawsuit against an organization that failed to protect employee data from breaches. http://t.co/kLsW4gZXb2
— Security & Privacy (@datarisk) April 24, 2014
Claudiu Popa, president and CEO of Informatica Corp.
As the head of Informatica Corp., Popa regularly blogs and writes about risks to security. He has advised his clients on best practices in security for more than 20 years. Popa is also the founder behind the Heartbleed.ca website, which aims to advise Canadians on how to deal with the Heartbleed vulnerability that recently made international headlines. He tweets on major data breaches, as well as the latest news in information security.
Read his latest blog post on Heartbleed here.
The description for @ppolstra talk at @_defcon_ is a shot over my bow. Doubt he can convince me ADS-B, etc is safe https://t.co/5dxIcjvMyv
— Render Man (@ihackedwhat) April 14, 2014
Brad Haines, director of Renderlab.net
As a security consultant for multiple clients, Haines does security consulting for clients on several different areas, including system administration and wireless networks. He is also a regular speaker on the cybersecurity circuit, having addressed attendees at SecTor, one of Canada’s biggest security conferences. Haines tweets about his own discoveries, as well as about other figures in the security industry.
Worried about Heartbleed? So are others I interviewed. http://t.co/JJhjjXKZaf
— Howard Solomon (@HowardITWC) April 10, 2014
Howard Solomon, editor of ITWorld Canada.com
As the editor of Computing Canada and senior enterprise writer for ITWorldCanada.com, Solomon writes for enterprise organizations, and he also covers information security, cloud, mobile, big data, the wireless industry and a range of other topics. Follow him for tweets on not only security vulnerabilities like Heartbleed, but for industry news – for example, he was recently at Microsoft’s Build conference for developers, tweeting the latest releases for Windows and for Windows Phones.
And check out our recap of our Twitter chat on encryption here.