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 64: Peer Based Research Breaks the Analyst Mold

November 17th, 2009

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, discusses the benefits of peer based research with Jack Phillips, co-founder of IANS, the Institute for Applied Network Security.

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Episode 63: What is the Future of Application Control?

November 13th, 2009

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO and Tom Murphy of Bit9 discuss the future of application control as new technologies like cloud computing and virtualization permeate the marketplace.

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Episode 62: Tuning Application Control Technologies

November 10th, 2009

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO discusses application control with Tom Murphy of Bit9, and how to avoid endpoint lockdown.

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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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