“Intel has added privacy to the portfolio of its top information security executive, Malcolm Harkins, who says too many information security professionals are “color blind or tone deaf” to privacy, wrongly thinking strong data protection provides privacy safeguards. “Security organizations need to recognize that potential blind spot in their acumen, and they need to partner with and work very, very heavily with their privacy organization,” Harkins says in an interview with Information Security Media Group. Despite common ground, he says, too often security and privacy professionals don't work together, adding: “That is a disservice to both the privacy and the security teams, as well as a disservice to the organizations that they work for.”In the interview, Harkins:Explains why the chip and IT wares maker combined the roles of chief information security and chief privacy officers into a single position, which helps manage risk;Furnishes an example of how security and privacy needs could clash and how having a single organization address both helps resolve the conflict;…”