[ISN] Cyber Security Specialist Named to Lead In-Q-Tel

From: InfoSec News (alerts@private)
Date: Tue Aug 29 2006 - 22:52:41 PDT


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/28/AR2006082801180.html

By David S. Hilzenrath
Washington Post Staff Writer
August 29, 2006

In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA and other intelligence
agencies, has hired an Intel Corp. manager with a background in cyber
security as its new chief executive.

Christopher A.R. Darby, 47, has led and sold three technology
companies and has "demonstrated leadership as a successful
entrepreneur," said Lee A. Ault III, chairman of the In-Q-Tel board.

Darby replaces Amit Yoran, who resigned in April after less than four
months on the job. Yoran was also a businessman with a background in
cyber security.

"I'm an operator at heart," Darby said in an interview yesterday.  
"I've been hired over the years to nurture and build companies."

In-Q-Tel, an Arlington-based not-for-profit organization, was created
by the CIA in 1999 to help the intelligence agency gain access to
advanced technologies being developed by entrepreneurial companies in
places such as Silicon Valley. In-Q-Tel invests in start-ups and other
companies alongside traditional venture capitalists and assesses
commercial technologies for use in the intelligence community.

Darby became general manager of an Intel Corp. division after Intel
acquired the software company Sarvega Inc., which Darby headed, last
year. Before that, Darby headed @stake, an Internet security
consulting firm that was bought by Symantec, and Interpath
Communications, which was acquired by US Internetworking.

In a 2003 article in Harvard Business Review titled "The Myth of
Secure Computing," Darby and a co-author wrote about the hazards
hackers pose to corporate networks.

Born in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Darby, a naturalized U.S.  
citizen, said he was recruited for the In-Q-Tel job by an executive
search firm. He said he already had the required security clearances.

Darby said he had not spent much time in Washington and was looking
forward to doing so. He spoke in the interview in only general terms
about his priorities at In-Q-Tel, saying he had a mandate to listen to
his customers and expand In-Q-Tel's business.

Ault, the board chairman, said the most pressing needs facing In-Q-Tel
and its government clients include developing nanotechnologies and
batteries with longer lives.

Copyright 2006 The Washington Post Company


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