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Beyond the Perimeter Podcast Series Episode 72: "Making Security Happen"

BEYOND THE PERIMETER PODCAST SERIES EPISODE 72:

“MAKING SECURITY HAPPEN”

Emeryville, Calif.— January 27, 2010

News Facts

  • In the most recent episode of Beyond the Perimeter, “Business Continuity and Security,” Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, speaks with Mike Rothman, founder, president, and principal analyst with Security Incite, on integrating good computing, good safety-security, and privacy practices into day-to-day operations.
  • Key words include: security, safety-security, privacy practices, security professional.

Background and Context

  • Beyond the Perimeter is an interview-style podcast series that began publishing in February 2009, hosted by BigFix, Inc., CTO Amrit Williams.
  • Beyond the Perimeter guests include luminaries and decision makers with expertise in enterprise information technology, computer security, system management and IT best practices. The content expressed on Beyond the Perimeter is the sole responsibility of the respective speakers and do not reflect the views of BigFix, Inc.
  • Amrit Williams has held a variety of engineering, management and consulting positions in the IT industry including research director in the Information Security and Risk Research Practice at Gartner, Inc. and engineering/management positions at nCircle Network Security, Consilient Inc., Network Associates, and McAfee. Williams is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Episode #72 Notable Quotes from Mike Rothman

  • “If we really want security to happen, and [to] permeate the broader market, it’s got to be easier to use. [And] the folks that we’ll see doing some level of innovation aren’t necessarily about building a better mousetrap, but about building a mousetrap that’s easier to set up, and reduces the likelihood that you’ll…be in a world of hurt.”
  • “As I re-envision my business, now that I’m kind of back in the independent agitator role, it really is trying to think about, and solve problems for, the administrators who wears multiple hats. We need to spend more time as a community thinking about issues [they face], and we need to package solutions and information to help them, and have them start thinking a lot more strategically about architecture, and how security really needs to fit into the larger computing stack of everything that they’re doing.”
  • “[As security professionals] we do by definition spend a lot of time on edgy cases, and the epiphany I had is that many folks that don’t even know what they don’t know. We’ve got a do better job collectively of helping them understand what they don’t know, give them some information, and, hopefully, some solutions to allow them to integrate good computing, good safety-security, and privacy practices into kind of their day-to-day operations.”

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