iPhone 5 Prototype Scandal Causes Tech Giant to Recruit Security Managers
Apple is looking to fill two new job positions for product security managers. The new positions opened up around the time a second iPhone prototype went missing late last month.
This is the second prototype within two years to disappear.
The jobs and the disappearance have not been confirmed by Apple to be related, although the positions are being offered by the Cupertino, California headquarters which in the same state where the devices both went missing.
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The company is searching for two managers responsible “for overseeing the protection of, and managing risk to, Apple’s unreleased products and related intellectual property.”
The job’s demands include traveling both domestic and abroad and are based at Apple’s headquarters.
The job title is listed on the company’s website as Manager, New Product Security.
The company is looking for candidates who have an advanced degree in Risk Management, Information Assurance and/or Security Management.
It also wants applicants to have 5+ years of security assessment and/or audit experience.
Those applying should be able to “conduct and manage large-scale security and risk assessments” along with having a “strong, practical understanding of strengths and weaknesses of enterprise risk management frameworks and international security standards.”
Apple may be looking to avoid future misplacing of prototypes for new products after a cutting room floor version of the next generation iPhone went missing last month.
Back in 2010, a prototype for the iPhone 4 went missing and was sold to tech website Gizmodo for $5,000.
This makes for two lost prototypes in the last few years for Apple.
Some analysts suspect that Apple may be staging these disappearances in order to build up more of a buzz for its new devices.
However, with the new jobs being offered, it seems like the tech giant really may be having issues with its security procedures.
