On this episode of The Bridge, I’m joined by Josh Henderson, Chief Technology Officer at Ntirety. We’re talking about information security strategy and so much more.
Managing security and compliance is a strategic, economic imperative directly impacting business outcomes. Ntirety is the only company that embeds compliant security throughout their clients’ IT and company culture. With over 25 years of experience and deep security expertise, their 24x7x365 security operations centers (SOCs) simplify risk management programs with a comprehensive protection, recovery, and assurance suite of services.
During our conversation, we discussed information security strategy and its significance for Ntirety, the evolution of security, industry changes, and technology solutions' complexity, how the pandemic accelerated the attention on security due to increased hacker activity, and other topics.
Topics covered in this episode:
● An overview of Ntirety's history, formed from companies like Hosting.com and Hostway.
● The importance of experienced people in the company who contribute to comprehensive solutions.
● The interconnectedness of security, infrastructure, and data protection.
● The challenges posed by the disappearance of traditional workplace boundaries due to factors like remote work and COVID-19.
● The significance of security's prominence in IT leaders' minds due to the pandemic.
● Why the traditional focus on the number of office locations for security conversations has evolved.
● The focus now shifts to end users and their locations for security discussions.
● The challenge of combining various security products and services.
● The importance of APIs and consistent data transfer for a comprehensive security solution.
● The challenges and complexity of compliance and security.
● The layout of security products in the industry and the need for a comprehensive approach.
● Challenges faced by businesses in implementing a complete defense strategy and the percentage of businesses lacking in certain areas.
● Importance of integrating security products and correlating alarms for effective threat detection and utilizing both human expertise and AI for threat detection and analysis.
● The expansion of security footprint due to IoT devices and the challenge of managing their security.
● Predictions for the next 18 to 24 months involving AI becoming more prevalent in various areas.
ABOUT JOSH HENDERSON
Josh Henderson, Ntirety’s CTO, joined the company in 2021 with over 20 years of experience in large-scale cloud and hosted Infrastructure, managed IT services, network, software development and consulting.
Prior to joining Ntirety, he served as CTO and COO for McLane Intelligent Solutions, CTO of Colo and Cloud at Zayo Group, and CTO for Clearview International. His experience across these roles includes high level IT strategy, technology lifecycle management, P&L management, operations, sales and full product life-cycle management in businesses ranging from startup to $2B+ in revenue.
Josh is an Alumni of Baylor University and today he resides in Austin, Texas.
CONTACT JOSH
LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-henderson-8b76572b/