Mari Frank Interviews Amit Yoran, CEO of Netwitness and Kevin Nixon MSA, CISSP, CISM

mit Yoran Amit Yoran led the management buyout of NetWitness from ManTech in 2006 and serves as the Chairman and CEO. Prior to NetWitness, he was appointed as Director of the National Cyber Security Division of Homeland Security, and as CEO and advisor to In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA. Formerly Mr Yoran served as the Vice President of Worldwide Managed Security Services at the Symantec Corporation. Mr. Yoran was the co-founder of Riptech, a market leading IT security company, and served as its CEO until the company was acquired by Symantec in 2002. He served as an officer in the United States Air Force in the Department of Defense's Computer Emergency Response Team. www.netwitness.com Kevin Nixon Kevin Nixon has over 25 years experience in MIS design and development, Information Security, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery and US and European Regulatory Compliance. He joined Datacastle in January 2008 as the Director of Security Business Strategy & Product Marketing. Kevin was responsible for public policy review and compliance analysis. He educates corporate management and staff on pending and existing technology legislation relevant to client employees, customers, partners, and vendors. In his role, Kevin has testified before the Republican High Tech Task Force, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee & the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and several infrastructure security boards and committees including: * Disaster Recovery Workgroup for the Office of Homeland Security (under Richard Clarke, Special Advisor to the President for Cyberspace Security and Chairman of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Board) * Executive Board of the Internet Security Alliance (ISA) * Chairman of the Best Practices Information Security Management Committee, ISA * Executive Board Member of the Accredited Standards Committee, X9, Inc., the only industry-wide forum that brings together bankers, securities professionals, manufacturers, regulators, associations, consultants, and others in the financial services arena to address technical problems, find the best solutions, and codify them as nationally accepted standards. * US TC68-SC2 & US TC68-SC6 Delegation Member to the International Standards Organization (ISO) on Financial Data Protection, Privacy and Security Standards * Consultant to the Federal Trade Commission on the roll out of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA) on web security best practices for the AnnualCreditReport.com website * Appeared as Cyber-terrorism Expert on CNBC?s Squawk Box with Mark Haines Kevin served as Director of Information Systems Security & Business Continuity at Alliance Data Systems and as the Banking Security Officer of World Financial Network National Bank. Kevin has held positions for oversight of all regulatory compliance, data security, and data privacy issues as well as; compliance with FFIEC Banking Regulations and directed the OCC & SAS 70 Audits for the corporation. From 1984 until 1997, Kevin worked for AMR AA/SABRE where he held various management positions of increasing responsibility. In 1995, Kevin managed the SABRE division's implementation and compliance to all European Union & European Commission regulations for Computerized Reservation Systems, which also included external audit management, and all SABRE contract management. Kevin is known for building strategic alliances, converting complicated regulatory and compliance language and translating it into common sense, easy to understand solutions. Kevin is a Master Security Architect (MSA); a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP); a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and attended the SMU Cox School of Business. Contact Information: Kevin M. Nixon, MSA, CISSP, CISM Mobile (214) 649-6305 E-mail: [email protected] Company Webpage: http://www.datacastlecorp.com Media Relations Contact: media@datacastlecorp