Tim Woods

Tim Woods has more than two decades of information security and data technology expertise and is responsible at FireMon for fully understanding the risk and security challenges facing enterprises and governments and the advanced technologies that help address them.

Prior to FireMon Woods spent three years in technical leadership at Crossbeam Systems, who transformed the way enterprises, service providers, and government agencies architect and deliver security service.

Before Crossbeam Woods was responsible for Security Engineering at Nokia Enterprise Solutions and led a team of pre-sales technical engineers supporting security and mobile enterprise solutions. Woods enjoys educating people on new and emerging technologies and is a technical presenter and corporate speaker at industry technology conferences and seminars.

Woods proudly served 8 years in the Naval Intelligence community and attended the University of Maryland majoring in Information Systems.

AusCERT2012 Presentation

Visualizing Risk - Measure Twice, Act Once

The challenge every security pro faces each morning is "what to do first?" Big picture planning, threat detection, refining operations and automating compliance clamor for attention every day. How to be most effective? By consistently making fact-based decisions, based on operations data, that reflect your organization's priorities.

Mountains of data - configurations, change information, vulnerabilities, network traffic - is collected daily in your infrastructure. But security team lacks both methods and tools to visualize and assess this relentless flood. So taking action that feels right can raise your risk posture, compromise policy compliance and halt business operations.

This session will introduce the principles of fact-based network security and best practices for data-driven decisions. Then an overview of FireMon's new Risk Analyzer solution will be presented, including multiple use cases. Risk Analyzer provides the real-time visibility and analysis needed to take the most effective steps to reduce risk postures.