"With a little motivation and not much skill, it's fairly trivial to sniff HTTP traffic, " said Alan Ross, the lead security analyst for Intel IT, noting there are free and easily attainable programs that can do just that.
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Before joining Atlantic Trust I was the Internet Security Software analyst for Smith Barney.
Speaking at the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit in Puerto Rico yesterday, President and Co-Founder Phil Zimmermann emphasized that Silent Circle will never include law-enforcement access mechanisms for its products.
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"This is the third significant military campaign, after Desert Storm and Kosovo, in which air power has been the decisive element and where casualties have been negligible, " John Pike, the chief analyst at the online security newsletter GlobalSecurity.com, said.
But the issue of public security that analyst Domicio Proenca(ph) expects would generate an outcry in the U.S. has not yet infused this race.
Mr. Forbes is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
"Piracy is not going away, " said Peter Chalk, an international security analyst at the RAND Institute.
But Michael O'Hanlon, a security analyst at the Brookings Institution, warns against complacency.
"The number one statistical change we noticed is the level of state-sponsored espionage, " said security analyst Wade Baker, lead author on the report.
One item on the laptop that was cited by Kohlmann linked to a YouTube video of a 2009 CNN report featuring the network's national security analyst, Peter Bergen, talking about a newly released audio tape from Osama bin Laden.
Alex Alexiev is the Vice President for Research at the Center for Security Policy and has worked for over 20 years as a national security analyst directing numerous research projects for the US Government as authoring several books, monographs, and articles.
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"There are legitimate businesses whose end product may end up in the hands of Al Shabaab, yet if governments resort to banning these businesses then it hurts the ultimate owners of these businesses, " says analyst Emmanuel Kisiangani of the Institute of Security Studies.
Alexiev served for nearly two decades as a senior analyst in the national security division of the Rand Corporation.
"The guard would need to be about 3 meters tall to carry the gun for those, " security analyst Zoran Kusovac wrote in an e-mail to CNN.
Welsh, the National Security Agency's Palestinian analyst, says he was summoned by a colleague about a communication intercepted from Arafat involving an imminent Black September operation in Khartoum.
Fran Townsend, CNN's national security analyst, said the modus operandi of terrorist bombers -- whether foreign or domestic -- usually involves multiple devices because one may not go off.
With a customer-focused business model that effectively uses the nation's airports as distribution points, net margins of 20% are feasible, estimates Horacio Zambrano, a Wedbush Morgan analyst who tracks the security industry.
"I didn't think anyone would be able to do what he's done for years, " says Charlie Miller, a former network exploitation analyst for the National Security Agency who first hacked the iPhone in 2007.
His olive branch was met with skepticism, said Alan Dupont, a regional security analyst who was at the meeting.
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Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst, said neither the United States nor the Taliban appear to be ready for negotiations.
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Security analyst Will Geddes said the pirates' apparent change of tack was a worrying one -- and not just for tourists, but for the authorities in Kenya and Somalia -- because it showed that the attackers felt they could not be stopped by the police.
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The security situation may be worsening, but political analyst Domicio Proenca says it would be "plain silly" for Lula to address it head on.
Top-level executives are among the most guilty of leaping on the latest gadget, says Chris McKie, the director of analyst and public relations at security firm Watchguard Technologies Inc.
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Patrick Poole is an expert terrorism analyst and co-author of the Center for Security Policy's Amazon best-seller Team B II: Shariah - The Threat to America.
Palo Alto Networks shares are trading modestly lower Thursday morning after Pacific Crest Securities analyst Rob Owens picked up coverage of the network security company with a Sector Perform rating, citing concerns about valuation.
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