1. 1. Please provide us with some background information on your organization and your industry.

I work in the information security industry, which has critical impacts on businesses, organizations and nations. Our society only increases its dependence upon technology, and properly securing it can come down to the life or death of an organization.

The information security industry is relatively new compared to other industries as in financial, medical, and telecommunications. The industry is currently going through many different ‘growth pains’ as it moves from a chaotic and infant entity to a more mature and disciplined space. I and my company have been seen as visionaries in helping some of the largest corporations and government agencies secure their most precious assets against the largest threats they face today.

Logical Security is going into its 8^th year of existence, while I have been in the industry for 15 years. My company specializes in risk management consulting services and training. We build enterprise-wide risk management programs that not only allow our customers to identify their vulnerabilities and stop their adversaries, but correlate and integrate information security issues into their overall business decisions and vision.

1. 2. What are some of the primary challenges your industry faces?

The threat landscape that companies face today is not the same that they had to deal with even five years ago. Today’s threats are not the lone hackers but organized, trained, and funded groups that are backed by organized crime rings or nation states.

Attackers are no longer interested in spreading benign viruses, but have very focused goals of obtaining an organization’s most sensitive data as in social security numbers, credit card information, medical data, and privacy and financial information. The attackers are using our technology against us and we are constantly being outsmarted.

Companies and government agencies are finding it difficult to keep up with a threat that can morph and adapt at the rate of speed that is currently taking place. Anti-virus products capture around 23% of the malware that is on our systems, meaning that most systems are infected and being used by an underground criminal without our knowledge.

Organizations have a false sense of security because they have anti-virus, firewalls, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention and other technologies in place. While these are necessary defenses, the enemy is circumventing them and covertly embedding themselves into the technology and devices we use day in and day out.

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