About Amrit Williams

February 1st, 2009

Amrit Williams, Chief Technology Officer, BigFix, Inc.

Amrit Williams has held a variety of engineering, management and consulting positions in the IT industry prior to joining BigFix. Most recently, Williams was a research director in the Information Security and Risk Research Practice at Gartner, Inc. Previously, Williams was a director of engineering for nCircle Network Security, and undertook leadership positions at Consilient Inc., Network Associates’ PGP security division, and McAfee Associates’ anti-virus division. Williams is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Beyond the Perimeter listeners can also read Williams’ personal blog at http://techbuddha.wordpress.com/ and follow his Twitter posts at http://twitter.com/amrittsering

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Episode 80: Finding the "So What" of Virtualization

March 12th, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, discusses current limitations and new possibilities of virtualization with Chad Jones and Bill Corrigan of Neocleus.

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Episode 79: Cyber-crime Vs. Cyber-warfare Vs. Cyber-espionage

March 6th, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, discusses the differences between cyber-crime, cyber-warfare, and cyber-expionage with Will Gragido and John Pirc of Cassandra Security.

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Episode 78: The More Threats Change, The More Solutions Stay The Same

February 26th, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, discusses how the ever-changing threat landscape is met by a static set of solutions. He is joined by Will Gragido and John Pirc of Cassandra Security.

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Episode 77: Is Your Software RUGGED?

February 22nd, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, investigates the new RUGGED Software Manifesto with its authors by Joshua Corman and David Rice.

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Is Your Software RUGGED?

February 20th, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, investigates the new RUGGED Software Manifesto with its authors by Joshua Corman and David Rice.

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Episode 76: APT’s Vs. SMT’s

February 13th, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, discusses advanced persistent threats and subversive multi-vector threats with Will Gragido and John Pirc of Cassandra Security.

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Episode 75: Women in Security, and the Pitfalls of Offshore Banking

February 6th, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, discusses with Andrew Hay the challenges women in security face and also the many security issues surrounding offshore banking.

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Episode 74: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Being an Author

February 2nd, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, discusses the ins and outs of writing tech books with author Andrew Hay.

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Episode 73: Is the Auditor Scarier Than the Attacker?

January 22nd, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, discusses how profit and politics have changed the security landscape with Josh Corman, research director for the enterprise security practice at The 451 Group.

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Episode 72: What Are the Real Threats for 2010?

January 15th, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, takes a look back at 2009, and a look ahead at what the real threats of 2010 will be with Mike Rothman, founder of Security Incite.

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