With more and more Enterprise level users taking an interest in what iOS mobile devices can do for their business, Apple has invested heavily in the acquisition of security-minded managers in recent years to ease the paranoid minds of corporate security types when it comes to buying Apple-branded smartphones and tablets for their workforce. The latest edition to Apple's stable of security specialists is rumored to be David Rice, a former Naval Intelligence officer and author of the book Geekonomics.
According to All Things Digital, several reliable sources have confirmed that Rice is set to take up the mantle of Apple's Head of Global Security sometime in March. Given Rice's extensive cryptology and signals security background, as well as his current association with organizations such as The Monterey Group and IANS Research, it looks like Apple has added a definite asset to their already stellar upper management stable.
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