IT Council Luncheon

“Advanced Security: Security teams need more firepower!”
Attackers continue to use sophisticated, targeted techniques to infiltrate organizations, but many security teams don’t have the staff and expertise to keep up with attacks, and the current monitoring tools are failing to meet their needs.  To raise their game, security teams need more effective threat detection to conduct investigations significantly faster.

About the Panel
Senior Solution Architect ​Carlos Bonet has over 18 years of Information technology and security experience, and has spent the last ten years exclusively in the information security field. Prior to coming to RSA, he was part of FishNet Security for 6 years, the last three as Director of Strategic Services and the first three as a Principle Consultant. Carlos was also a Director of Information Security for a Fortune 1000 financial institution with responsibility for implementing an information security program. His experience ranges from information security governance implementation, incident response, data classification, policy development, Payment Card Industry, IT risk, privacy and control assessments to technical integration of security products.  He also has been a member of numerous security related organizations such as ISACA, ISSA, IAPP, Infragard, Baptie, NAC and ISC2.

Marcos Vieyra is the Chief Information Security Officer for the State of South Carolina. With over 10 years of full-time information security experience, he leads the newly created Division of Information Security (DIS) under the SC Budget and Control Board. The DIS was created by the South Carolina General Assembly in July, 2013, and has been charged with the establishment of information security policy, standards, procedures and guidelines for over 70 state agencies, including the authority to oversee incident response at these agencies. Marcos has earned and maintains current the following information security and privacy certifications: GSLC, GLEG, GSNA, G2700, CISSP, CIPP/IT, CIPP/US, and CIPM.

Adam Anderson is the founder and CEO of Palmetto Security Group, an IBM Premier Business Partner that resells IBM software and offers professional services around the IBM Security Suite of products.  In 1998, he focused his new skill set towards safeguarding First Security National Bank from the Y2K code bug. This led him to South Carolina to do business automation enhancements for Royal Dutch Ahold. After two years of working with advanced security products such as the IBM Identity and Access Management suite, Adam decided to try his hand as a road warrior for IBM’s Tivoli Professional Services division. Adam then started Palmetto Software Group, LLC, soon to be known as Palmetto Security Group with one client.