Brian Stewart

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Businesses today face an increasingly tough and complex challenge: how to deal with Cyber Risk and avoid being the next cautionary Ransomware tale. The common misconception is that to end Cyber Risk means to add the latest and greatest \'killer\' tool or hardware from IT Security Vendors. Whilst those providers offer powerful solutions when it comes to dealing with particular aspects of CyberSecurity, this industry has great tools in abundance already - CyberSecurity doesn\'t have a tools problem, it has an effectiveness problem. Businesses decide on a CyberSecurity Vendor & related new solutions with decreasing Cyber Risk and exposure in mind. They may even look to build their own Security Operations Centre (SOC) as the centre for expertise to operate all CyberSecurity related tools and processes. Unfortunately, to operate an effective SOC takes 8-12 expensive CyberSecurity expert personnel at a bare minimum. These personnel need to be trained on an ongoing basis and motivated to stay against a backdrop of a severe industry shortage of such expertise. It simply becomes too costly for many organisations to have such a SOC. This defines the essence of the CyberSecurity effectiveness problem and it\'s a passion of mine to help you solve this and end Cyber Risk. Ask me for more information if this sounds useful!My background:Senior PreSales Consultant experienced in most aspects of Enterprise IT with focus on CyberSecurity. Vast experience in Software Defined Infrastructure, modern Storage, CI & HCI platforms, SDS and Data Management. Able to articulate the business value of technology at all levels to ensure technical closure in a given sales cycle.Typical duties include White boarding and Presenting to prospect & existing customer audiences as well as at events, performing product demos, responding to Tenders / RFI\'s / RFP\'s, solution sizing, quoting software licensing and other Proposal work.Specialties- CyberSecurity: Helping customers end Cyber Risk through solving the CyberSecurity effectiveness problem- Software Defined Infrastructure, modern Storage, CI & HCI platforms and Software Defined Storage including Vendor solutions such as VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) & vSAN, DellEMC / VCE Vblock / VxBlock / VxRail, HPE Nimble inc. dHCI / Alletra / Primera / 3PAR / SimpliVity, Atlantis USX & HyperScale- Data Management solutions such as Commvault, VEEAM, Symantec / Veritas Backup Exec & Enterprise Vault- Associated technologies inc. Cloud, Virtualisation, Server infrastructure, SAN/NAS/DAS storage, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, Networking etc.