Sony outlines PlayStation Network revival plans

May 1st, 2011, 11:28 Posted By: wraggster

At a Tokyo press conference this morning Sony executives apologised for the PlayStation Network outage that has seen the theft of millions of gamers' personal data - possibly even credit cards.
Sony revealed its "Welcome Back" programme designed to reward customers affected by the outage.
Sony will offer "selected PlayStation entertainment content" for free download on a region by region basis. It will announce the content soon.
All existing PSN customers will get 30 days free membership in the PlayStation Plus service. Existing PS+ customers receive 30 days free. Qriocity subscribers receive 30 days free.
Sony promised more Welcome Back "entertainment and services" over the coming weeks as PSN is turned back on. Sony reconfirmed the news that some PSN and Qriocity services will be available this week. Sony will first turn back on gaming, music and video services.
Meanwhile, Sony went into a bit more detail on last week's cyber-attack that rocked the game industry and left personal data tied to 77 million PSN accounts stolen.
Sony has implemented a variety of new security measures to provide greater protection of personal information. Tests have been conducted with third-party security experts to verify the strength of PSN, and the job of Chief Information Security Officer has been created to "add a new position of expertise in and accountability for customer data protection".
The new security measures include:

• Added automated software monitoring and configuration management to help defend against new attacks.
• Enhanced levels of data protection and encryption.
• Enhanced ability to detect software intrusions within the network, unauthorized access and unusual activity patterns.
• Implementation of additional firewalls.

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