BigFix Names Amrit Williams as Chief Technology Officer.

Leading Gartner Security Analyst to Define Strategic Product and Technology Vision for BigFix's Real-Time IT Security Optimization Engine

EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- BigFix[R], Inc., delivering the industry's only real-time IT policy enforcement and security optimization engine, today appointed Amrit Williams as chief technology officer. Williams brings more than 18 years' experience in security software development and IT security research to the role of CTO. Most recently, Williams served as research director for the Information Security and Risk Research Practice at Gartner, Inc. As CTO for BigFix, Williams will be responsible for the direction of the company's strategic product development and roadmap.

"BigFix's solution represents a fundamental shift from other systems management approaches, which is why it interests me. Delivering a single converged platform for IT security and operations, BigFix's intelligent single-agent, multi-function architecture enables real-time discovery, assessment, remediation and reporting for highly complex and distributed IT environments," said Amrit Williams, chief technology officer at BigFix. "Global enterprises need a single, highly reliable solution that ensures fine-grained security policy enforcement without handicapping operational agility," added Williams. "BigFix uniquely enables IT to master increasingly dangerous threat environments, as well as crucial compliance and operations initiatives."

"With Amrit Williams as CTO, BigFix cements our industry leadership position," said Dave Robbins, president and chief executive officer for BigFix. "Amrit brings a depth of understanding from both a business and technology perspective that will greatly enhance our ongoing solution development. Enterprise IT is in the middle of a massive transition Co from highly centralized, legacy client-server systems to highly distributed SOA and Web-based architectures," added Robbins. "BigFix is the only automated IT platform that enables organizations to master this transformation securely and at their own pace. With Amrit on board, BigFix customers can expect to receive radically beneficial solutions for their most critical IT challenges."

At Gartner, Williams' responsibilities included defining and conducting analysis in multiple research areas. His research focused on secure application development, vulnerability management, security information and event management, network security, desktop security, and all manner of anti-malware detection and prevention. He provided market conditions and vendor guidance to an extensive Gartner client base, consisting primarily of large multi-national enterprises from every major industry vertical.

Prior to Gartner, Williams was director of engineering for nCircle Network Security, where he was responsible for managing all aspects of a globally dispersed product development organization including development, quality assurance, vulnerability research, and documentation. He oversaw all aspects of product lifecycle including defining roadmaps, prototypes, requirements, white papers, architecture, functional specifications, design, development, testing, and customer roll out. He facilitated cross functional product coordination with marketing, sales, training, and technical partners. Williams has also held senior leadership positions at Consilient Inc., Network Associates' PGP security division, and McAfee Associates' anti-virus division. Williams is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

About BigFix

Founded in 1997, BigFix offers the only intelligent IT operations engine that continuously discovers, assesses, remediates and reports on the health and security of global enterprise computing infrastructures in real time. Designed for highly distributed and complex IT infrastructures, BigFix Enterprise Suite delivers real-time endpoint visibility and control through its single agent, multi-function architecture. Its award-winning technology is proven in production at more than 500 companies, government agencies and public sector institutions worldwide and currently manages over 7,000,000 desktop and mobile clients, workstations, and servers. More information can be found at www.bigfix.com.

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