AT&T's top IT leader, Hossein Eslambolchi, this week warned of security problems of "biblical proportions" unless more is done to improve the quality of software code. To help accomplish that, he is working to improve the education of software engineers under a new program at the University of California.
Eslambolchi, who spoke at this week's Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference, is president of AT&T's Global Networking Technology Services and serves as the company's chief technology officer and CIO. In an interview with Computerworld's Patrick Thibodeau, he also talked about how AT&T is turning to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment to consolidate systems and grid technologies, and touted network improvements at the company that can immediately detect security issues for corporate customers.
