[ISN] Get Smart: Exxon Outfits CEO With ‘Secure’ Phone

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:47:31 -0500 (CDT)
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/04/13/get-smart-exxon-outfits-ceo-with-secure-phone/

By Keith Johnson
Environmental Capital 
Wall Street Journal
April 13, 2009

The whole country is now worried about the specter of cyber attacks that 
will bring down the electricity grid. Big Oil is worried about another 
kind of cybersecurity: eavesdropping.

Exxon spent $222,985 last year on security for chairman and chief 
executive Rex Tillerson. The bulk of that went for standard-issue stuff: 
a car and driver, and residential security. But just over $9,000 
apparently went for his phones, listed in Exxon’s proxy statement as 
security expenses “for mobile phones and other communications equipment 
for conducting business in a secure manner.”

Securing high-level conversations in an age where everybody has a 
cellphone has become something of a national obsession. After he won the 
election, President Obama warned handlers would have to “pry” his 
Blackberry out of his hands; he eventually was equipped with a special 
secure phone rigged up by the National Security Agency.

But corporate chieftains—especially globe-trotting oil execs–can’t live 
in a communications-free bubble, which would explain Exxon’s expenditure 
on Mr. Tillerson’s secure mobile phones.

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