Chair:
Jody Patilla
METASeS
USA
Ron Gula
Enterasys
USA
Gene Kim
Tripwire
USA
Chris Klaus
Internet Security Systems
USA
Paul Proctor
Centrax
USA
In the classic IT realm, the CTO role was created to assist CIOs to develop viable technical solutions to existing problems. However, in the realm of the vendors and suppliers, there is considerably less agreement on what exactly the CTO needs to do, but no shortage of opinions on what makes the role difficult to fill. This panel addresses a number of challenges by some of the most well-respected security tool vendor CTOs.