PANEL: Cybersecurity and Media: All the News That's Fit to Protect?

Cybersecurity is more important than ever to the news media. Hacks directed at media outlets have ranged from the fundamental to the sophisticated, but the damage has been uniformly significant. Not only has the reputation of trusted media organizations been impacted, billions of dollars in market value have been lost and the sacred bond between reporters and sources have been broken. At the same time, reporters are casting about for more secure ways to communicate with their sources, given that e-mails and phone records can be subpoenaed. In this panel, reporters, developers and other stakeholders describe how security issues have affected them and discuss leading-edge software and best practices to protect the newsroom as the 24/7, real-time, global clearing house of the 21st century information economy. Moderator: Dylan Tweney, Executive Editor, VentureBeat