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Mr. Adams is a seasoned software executive with successful business experience in various-sized organizations that serve the IT security and quality assurance industries.
As CEO, he applies his technical and business skills, as well as his pervasive industry experience in the Application Quality space, to direct world-renowned application security experts and deliver world-class professional services to many of the most recognizable companies in the world including Microsoft, IBM, Visa, Fedex, ING, Symantec, SAP and HP.
Mr. Adams is the founder and business owner of the Application Security Industry Consortium, Inc. (AppSIC), an association of industry technologists and leaders establishing and defining cross-industry application security guidance and metrics. He is on the board of the National Association of Information Security Groups (NAISG).
No stranger to the podium, Mr. Adams has presented to thousands at numerous seminars, software industry conferences, and private companies. He has contributed written and oral commentary for business and technology media outlets such as New England Cable News, CSO Magazine, SC Magazine, CIO Update, Investors Business Daily, Optimize and CFO Magazine. Mr. Adams is in the process of writing a book titled "Information Security Management: Survival Guide", which will be published by Wiley & Sons and is due out in February 2008. He also maintains a blog with CSO Magazine and is a columnist for CIO Update.
Topics of interest on which Mr. Adams has spoken:
Considering IT security from a contextual standpoint; What security means to [my] business
Assessing risks and vulnerabilities in an enterprise
Marrying security with risk management frameworks
Integrating security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
Creating a security-aware organization: effective techniques for training and awareness programs
Measuring/assessing security investments
Understanding the leadership, staffing and ownership of security in an organization
Mr. Adams earned his MBA degree with honors from Boston College and has B.A. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and English Literature from the University of Massachusetts. | 