Gental Warts On Black Men

to put out the last fire in Sony

By Daisuke Wakabayashi

Sony Corp. The battle of the tail to minimize the violation of their security systems Online highlights the role of Kazuo Hirai, the head of the gaming division and the leading candidate to become the next chief executive of the conglomerate.

• Hirai, 51, faces the biggest crisis of his career. video game division, whose course helped straighten after four years of losses, is dealing with the theft of more than 100 million accounts of their online networks. His handling of the situation is likely to affect the race to succeed CEO Howard Stringer.

• Hirai, a bilingual executive and equally at home in Japan and the United States, has been commissioned to address this crisis, say company sources. Hirai participates in almost all meetings on the subject, speaking English with technical teams in California and Japan with the CIO, Shinji Hasejima, Tokyo, and working with global teams on legal and general business plans.

• Sony Some sources say they are "surprised" by how Hirai has been deeply involved, given their lack of experience in crisis management and its propensity to delegate responsibilities to their managers.

• "What happened is not good for Sony, but it is a fantastic opportunity for him to demonstrate his leadership, "says Atul Goyal, an analyst at brokerage CLSA. " If you mess up, it will weaken your chances of ascending to the CEO. If successful, prove to be an able successor " he says.

• Hirai and Stringer were not available for comment.

• In the eye of Hurricane
• Sony has been the target of attacks from politicians and privacy advocates on the Internet, pointing the company that took over the account to inform users about the security violation and should have done more to protect the personal information of its customers.

• Sony reported that a hacker or hacker accessed the personal information of 77 million PlayStation Network, the network that allows users console play each other online and download games, movies and television. The data of 24.6 million accounts at Sony Online Entertainment Platform de múltiples jugadores para juegos de computadoras personales, también fueron robados.

• Legisladores de EE.UU. difundieron el miércoles una carta en la que Sony dijo que encontró un mensaje de burla para la compañía durante el ataque, pero que aún no sabe quién fue el responsable.

• Cuando Sony se disculpó ante los medios japoneses el domingo, en su primera conferencia de prensa sobre la situación, Hirai fue el ejecutivo de mayor rango en inclinarse en señal de disculpa.

• Hirai ha sido el rostro público de Sony durante la crisis, eclipsando al Stringer himself, who has not made a public appearance since he exposed the violation of data.

• From Sony office in New York, Stringer has played a role behind the scenes. Sony says that speaks Hirai every few hours.

• But Stringer has generally left the case over Hirai, who has followed an unusual path in Sony. The executive has almost no experience in the business of consumer electronics, unlike most of the dome of the Japanese conglomerate. Hirai, however, is the greatest experience you have in the Internet services business. The network began PlayStation Network in 2006 and its success has been used as a model and technical and strategically-for the way in which Sony plans to integrate its electronic services to traditional consumers.