Expert Security Webcast Series
Achieving Agile Security Management: Optimizing the Organization for Agile Security
Free Webcast - Part 3 of 3
Charles Kolodgy
IDC Research Director
Charles Kolodgy is a Research Director for IDC's Security Products service where he executes primary research projects and analyzes markets for both vendors and user customers. Product areas of concentration include firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, vulnerability assessment and management, hardware authentication (tokens and smartcards) and encryption.
Kolodgy's perspectives on security products and security markets was shaped during his 16-year career with the National Security Agency (NSA) where he held a variety of analyst and managerial positions within both information assurance and signals intelligence organization.
Popular press and trade publications frequently call on Kolodgy. His comments appear in Time, the Boston Globe, the San Jose Mercury News, Information Security Magazine, BusinessWeek, eWeek, ComputerWorld, Network World, CSO, USA Today, Information Week and others. He also speaks at industry conferences within the United States.
Kolodgy holds a master's of arts degree in National Security from Georgetown University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Lowell (MA).
Russell Eubanks
Information Security Analyst, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
Russell Eubanks is an Information Security Analyst at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. He is heavily involved with the corporate HIPAA compliance efforts, specializing in technical safeguards needed to help demonstrate compliance, and also focuses on Windows and web security, intrusion detection, vulnerability assessment, and the PKI. He received his bachelor's of science degree in computer science from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and is pursuing several information security certifications.
Matt Dircks
Vice President Security Management Products, NetIQ
Matt Dircks is Vice President of Product Management for Security Management Products at NetIQ. He is responsible for complete product lifecycle management across the security, administration and migration products from NetIQ. Dircks joined NetIQ in November 2001, following a period as General Manager for the Web Products Group and Director of WW Product Management at Citrix Systems. He has more than 16 years of product management and business consulting experience in the enterprise software marketplace with previous roles at Citrix Systems, Exact Software, Best Software and PowerCerv Technologies.
