An Absurd Argument

By Amit Yoran

Amit Yoran is the Chairman and CEO of Tenable.  He is former president of RSA Security and has served as the director of the National Cyber Security Division at the Department of Homeland Security.  

The private sector perspective on encryption technology is critical to understanding the crux of the debate.  Amid news that Dell had agreed to buy RSA’s parent company, EMC, in the largest deal in the IT industry’s history, RSA President Amit Yoran sat down with The Cipher Brief to talk about encryption and what he sees as a fundamental misunderstanding on behalf of the government of the implications that a legal request would have had. 

Note: We sat down at the same time that FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers last week that the Obama Administration would not be seeking a legal means to force companies to build in technology that would allow them court-approved access to encrypted data.

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