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Technology can certainly be an investment, especially for small- and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs). Many programs cost a lot of money up front and may not end up serving the needs your business has.
That’s why it’s so important to carefully choose which technologies your business invests in. This often entails doing some market research and understanding exactly how a tech tool might be able to solve your business needs.
At HeraSoftTM, we apply distributed cloud, ransomware-proof software (RPSTM) to solve the world’s toughest enterprise and cyber security, finance, gamification and logistical challenges. We help enterprise and government organizations be more secure and function faster at less cost.
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He brings over twenty years of experience working for Schlumberger Oilfield Services, Loves Travel Stops, Chesapeake Energy and NTT Security in the fields of Information Technology, Information Security, Digital Forensics, and Incident Response. He has provided digital forensic analysis in over 2,100 court cases, 160 Incident Response engagements, 250 penetration tests, appointed Special Master by the Court, sits on the OCCC Advisory Board, and he is ACE, PCE,CCE and GCFA certified. Mr. Farrow was awarded the “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” Award at the Tulsa Small Business Summit and Awards Ceremony in 2018.
Tony is a trusted advisor to cybersecurity startups, incubators, and accelerators in Silicon Valley with extensive experience defining growth strategies and building and nurturing successful Strategic Partnerships and Technical Alliances.
Tony has proven track record defining security strategies, OEM and GTM plans while exceeding goals as security sales overlay leader, delivering solutions and consulting services across key industry vertical Financial Services, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Medical Devices, Cloud Services, and IoT. He has in-depth cybersecurity domain expertise driving security risk assessments, Data Protection and DLP, GRC, CASB, Enterprise and Cloud security architecture, go-to-market strategy, sales enablement, technology alliance integration & business development for emerging cybersecurity startups as well as Fortune 500 IT technology and security solution providers.”
Bret Hartman has over thirty years of experience building information security solutions for major enterprises. His expertise includes cloud, virtualization, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services security, policy development and management, and security modeling and analysis. Mr. Hartman has spoken at dozens of security and privacy industry events and is a recognized authority on distributed systems security.
As Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Bret Hartman was responsible for defining the corporate security technology strategy for Cisco, as implemented by the Security Business Group. Prior to Cisco, Bret Hartman was Chief Technology Officer of RSA and an EMC Fellow, where he defined the security technology strategy for EMC. This strategy drove the acquisitions of RSA Security, Network Intelligence, Tablus, Archer, and NetWitness; and the creation of RSA, the Security Division of EMC, now generating $1B of revenue.
Bret Hartman’s previous roles include Director of Technical Services for SOA Appliances at IBM Corporation; Vice President of Technology Solutions at DataPower Technology Inc. (acquired by IBM); Chief Technology Officer at Quadrasis Security (Hitachi Computer Products); Vice President, e-Security Services and Chief Security Architect at Concept Five Technology; President and Co-Founder of BlackWatch Technology Inc; and Director of Information Security at Odyssey Research Associates. Mr. Hartman began his distinguished career as a U.S. Air Force officer assigned to the U.S. National Security Agency. At the U.S. National Security Agency Mr. Hartman helped to create the “DoD Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria” (Orange Book). Mr. Hartman was a co-author of Object Management Group’s CORBA Security specification and co-edited the Security Scenarios document produced by the WS-I Basic Security Profile Working Group. Mr. Hartman also co-authored “Mastering Web Services Security” (Wiley 2003), “Enterprise Security with EJB and CORBA” (Wiley 2001), and US patent 6,807,636: “Methods and Apparatus for Facilitating Security in a Network”.
Bret Hartman holds a B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
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