Eddie Schwartz

Chief Security Officer

RSA

Biography
Mr. Schwartz is Chief Security Officer for RSA and has 25 years experience in the information security field. Previously, he was CSO of NetWitness (acquired by EMC), CTO of ManTech, EVP and General Manager of Global Integrity (acquired by INS), SVP of Operations of Guardent (acquired by VeriSign), CISO of Nationwide Insurance, a Senior Computer Scientist at CSC, and a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Dept. of State.

Mr. Schwartz has advised a number of early stage security companies, and served on the Executive Committee for the Banking Information Technology Secretariat (BITS).

Mr. Schwartz has a B.I.S. in Information Security Management and an M.S. in Information Technology Management from the George Mason University School of Management.

Speech Topic & Synopses
The Endpoint of Perimeter Defense – Moving Beyond Legacy Approaches to Network Security and Getting Ahead of Targeted and Zero-Day Malware.

Timely detection of targeted and zero-day malware is a challenging but critical task for many organizations’ incident response teams.

Some companies have adopted a four-dimension approach for automated, concurrent analysis of all file objects crossing the wire, thereby increasing the frequency of targeted and zero-day malware detection and lowering the risks associated with long term compromise.