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 99: Should Security Compliance Fall on the Independent Software Vendor?

December 16th, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, looks at the responsibility of the ISV in security compliance with Jack Danahy, founder of Ounce Labs, and now the World Wide Security Executive for the Rational division of IBM.

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Episode 98: Is Education the Key to a Rapidly Evolving Security Marketplace?

December 15th, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, discusses the role of education in security with Jack Danahy, founder of Ounce Labs, and now the World Wide Security Executive for the Rational division of IBM.

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Episode 98: Is Education the Key to a Rapidly Evolving Security Marketplace?

December 2nd, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, discusses the role of education in security with Jack Danahy, founder of Ounce Labs, and now the World Wide Security Executive for the Rational division of IBM.

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Episode 97: What Changes do Businesses Need to Make in the Coming Year?

September 3rd, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, concludes his discussion about the Verizon Business 2010 Data Breach Report with Alex Hutton, Principal of Research and Intelligence at Verizon Business.

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Episode 96: Verizon Business Releases the 2010 Data Breach Report

August 28th, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, digs into the details of the Verizon Business 2010 Data Breach Report with Alex Hutton, Principal of Research and Intelligence at Verizon Business.

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Episode 95: What’s Next? Looking to the Future of Cloud Computing

July 30th, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, discusses the possibilities for cloud computing in the next few years with Chris Hoff, Director of Cloud & Virtualization Solutions of the Security Technology Business Unit at Cisco Systems.

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Episode 94: Overcoming Compliance Requirements and Legacy Systems When Moving to the Cloud

July 23rd, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, continues his discussion on effectively using cloud computing at the enterprise level with Chris Hoff, Director of Cloud & Virtualization Solutions of the Security Technology Business Unit at Cisco Systems.

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Episode 93: Is Trust the Real Barrier to Cloud Computing?

July 16th, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, discusses the barriers to effectively using cloud computing at the enterprise level with Chris Hoff, Director of Cloud & Virtualization Solutions of the Security Technology Business Unit at Cisco Systems.

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Episode 92: The Inconvenient Truth of Security from the 2010 InfoSec Conference

June 26th, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, discusses Cloud Computing and other trends with Philippe Courtot, CEO of Qualys Inc. at the 2010 InfoSec Conference.

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Episode 91: Horror Films to Hackers

June 18th, 2010

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, discusses the lessons learned from the film industry with inventor, nCircle founder, and Life Zero blogger John Flowers.

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