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 61: Can Whitelisting Secure Endpoints Without Interupting Work Flow?

November 6th, 2009

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO discusses Whitelisting with Tom Murphy of Bit9, and what practices can embolden endpoint security without disturbing work flow.

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Episode 60: Insiders: Security Threat or Ally? Part 3

October 30th, 2009

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO winds up the conversation with author and speaker Michael Santarcangelo on the nature of insider threats and how to manage them.

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Episode 59: Insiders: Security Threat or Ally? Part 2

October 27th, 2009

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO continues the conversation with author and speaker Michael Santarcangelo on the nature of insider threats and how to manage them.

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Episode 58: Insiders: Security Threat or Ally?

October 23rd, 2009

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO begins an interesting series of conversations with author and speaker Michael Santarcangelo. Michael questions the statistics and growing concerns over insider threats.

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Episode 57: Unifying Virtual and Bare Metal Computing, Part 2

October 20th, 2009

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO continues his conversation with Vikram Desai, president and CEO of Liquid Computing on optimizing virtual and bare metal computing to optimize service provision to end users.

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Episode 56: Unifying Virtual and Bare Metal Computing, Part 1

October 16th, 2009

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO speaks with Vikram Desai, president and CEO of Liquid Computing on optimizing virtual and bare metal computing to optimize service provision to end users.

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Episode 55: Web Applications Need Security Too, Part 3

October 6th, 2009

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO concludes his interview with Doug Wilson co-chair of Open Web Application Security Project Washington DC chapter, focusing on what enterprises can do to include security into the product development life-cycle.

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Episode 54: Web Applications Need Security Too, Part 2

October 2nd, 2009

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO continues his interview with Doug Wilson co-chair of Open Web Application Security Project Washington DC chapter, highlighting the upcoming OWASP-sponsored AppSecDC conference Nov. 12-13 at the Washington DC Convention Center.

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Episode 53 – Web Applications Need Security, Too–Part 1

September 29th, 2009

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO speaks with Doug Wilson co-chair of Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Washington DC chapter and Michael Smith, the Guerilla CISO, on community efforts to improve security of web-based applications.

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Episode 52 – Information Security and the Application Stack–Part 3

September 25th, 2009

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO concludes his conversation with Brad Arkin, Adobe Systems director of security and privacy, this time focusing on Adobe’s processes to build in security during the product development cycle.

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