The Sony PSN security breach of 2011 is coming to a close here for Sony, but the reparations are just beginning. Sony CEO Howard Stringer has been vocal about how Sony responded to and addressed the security breach that occurred in mid-April.
In fact, Stringer believes that the one-week response time was not only satisfactory, but ahead of the precedent set by other companies. The public notification of the security breach was incredibly fast by Sony’s calculations, which insists that a goodly amount of companies take up to and exceeding a month to inform customers of potential problems.
"Most of these breaches go unreported by companies," said Stringer to reporters on Tuesday. "Forty-three percent notify victims within a month. We reported in a week. You're telling me my week wasn't fast enough?"
Stringer also addressed rising concern on just how much damage the attack caused, and whether or not Sony has been hurt financially. "There's a charge for the system being down, a charge for identity theft insurance. The charges mount up, but they don't add up to a number we can quantify just yet."
This is not the first time Stringer has spoken on the subject. His open letter on May 5 offered that Sony was doing everything it possibly could to ensure security was maintained.
The critics have yet to be sated it seems, as some have even called for the executive to resign. And others are calling for criminal investigation of Sony due to negligence on the possibility that Sony had not been keeping up on security standards by using obsolete software.
The damage might be done for the actual PSN, but Sony still has a long way to go to recover, and the hackers that committed the crime have yet to be found and punished.
