Rob is news director in the Security Media Group where he helps prioritize and build cohesive news coverage across the group's websites in the TechTarget portfolio. As a news reporter and editor for SearchSecurity.com, he produces news stories daily on breaking cybersecurity news and trending topics as well as topical podcasts and videos. He is producer of SearchSecurity's Security Wire Weekly podcast. Since joining TechTarget in July 2003, Rob has covered SAP, Oracle and the database industry for SearchDatabase.com, SearchSAP.com and SearchOracle.com. Prior to joining TechTarget, Rob was a newspaper reporter for five years at The Day in New London, Conn., where he wrote a variety of crime, general news, government and business stories while covering towns in Southeastern Connecticut. A military veteran, Rob served four years with the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Forces Police in Kaiserslautern Germany. He holds a degree in journalism from the University of Connecticut.
Contributions from Robert Westervelt, News Director
- Howard Schmidt to leave White House, retire
- PCI Council endorses P2P encryption for mobile
- Microsoft’s Lipner on SDL for critical systems
- BeyondTrust acquires eEye Digital Security
- Microsoft program breach prompted RDP exploit
- Android users targeted with mobile drive-by attack
- PCI Council updates point-to-point encryption guidance
- Reverse engineering mobile apps tedious
- Mitigating BYOD risks starts with policy, experts say
- Microsoft: Exploit kit boosts Java, HTML attacks
- Dan Geer: Internet dependency raises risk
- HP: Custom Web application flaws a serious problem
- Hacktivists pose bigger problem for researchers
- Security policies at foundation of mobile security plan
- Serious Samba flaw allows root access
- Microsoft fixes critical IE, ActiveX flaws
- Automated tools fail to detect application logic flaws
- Panel urges new security focus, less product dependence
- Expert stumps for state, local police breach response
- Expert advocates more effective pen testing
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