Previously, Strand held security/compliance positions at Trustwave, Tripwire, EMC/RSA, and Compuware. His current and past experience has provided him with a unique insight in the areas of security assessment and audit, data security, forensics, threat intelligence, security solution implementation, product development, and much more.

Strand was trained as a security auditor including a QSA, is a PCIP, and participates in the development of regulatory standards globally. He has been certified on many cyber-regulatory disciplines, and serves as an industry expert on several IT Security and compliance baselines and frameworks including PCI DSS, HIPAA and HITECH and NIST.

Strand is regularly invited to speak about security and compliance issues and best practices in keynotes, industry webinars, interviews, and many conferences. He is an active contributor and participant with ISACA, ISSA, ISC2, and the PCI SSC and has authored white papers and articles published in multiple security industry journals and books. He has been an expert witness on global cyber security events and is frequently quoted by many leading global media outlets.

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Daryl's background includes Oracle Global, HP, Private Equity, EMC-RSA, Gartner/AMR, Splunk and now IBM Global Security. His focus areas are: fundamental dilemma facing security, team-tools-tactics analysis, and competitive comparisons in security operations and response approaches.

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Randy has broad experience in Data Center Infrastructure/Security, Networking and HyperConverged Solutions across enterprise, commercial and public sector organizations. He also consults and speaks on a number of topics from Technology to Team/Individual High Performance.  Randy is currently located in Atlanta, GA.

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His role at Digital Guardian includes running our Managed Service Program (MSP) to deliver endpoint detection & response along with data loss prevention to our customer base around the world. He brings a wealth of practical information gained from tracking and hunting advanced threats targeted at stealing sensitive data.

Nicholas has established strong relationships with our clients’ IT leaders, becoming a trusted IT partner, not a one-time implementation provider. Fully understanding a client’s IT and business needs enables Nicholas to coordinate and offer customized solutions that maximize the benefits our clients realize from IBM solutions. Nicholas also strengthened the IBM-Business Partner relationship, which has grown opportunities for services, software and hardware. Nicholas is also very involved in pre-delivery technical work, often leading or assisting in proof-of-concept and pilot projects with customers to highlight the business value and ROI with the solutions we sell.