Gary Bahadur, CEO & Founder
Mr. Bahadur was the co-founder and CIO of Foundstone, one of most well known information security and vulnerability risk management companies ever created which occupied five offices in the United States and one office in Singapore and one office in India. Foundstone was acquired by McAfee for $86M in October of 2004. Gary was also the President and co-founder of Ether2 Corporation managing business development, client acquisition, marketing, fund raising, and strategic direction. Gary also served as a Senior Vice President at Bank of America. A longstanding industry veteran, Gary was also an Information Security Practice Manager at Ernst & Young and Senior Consultant at Price Waterhouse. Gary has published two books “Windows XP Professional Security” and “Privacy Defended: Protecting Yourself Online” and has a new book “Securing the Clicks: Network Security in the Age of Social Media“. He has published numerous information security and compliance related articles and is a frequent speaker at a number of information security conferences including ISACA, ISSA, Networld Interop, and Vanguard Security.
Contact Gary at info@kraasecurity.com
Patrice Coles, Principle
Patrice has a master’s degree in Information Assurance from Norwich University — a National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence — coupled with a highly successful 20-year history of building and implementing IT audit/controls and security solutions for businesses of all sizes equips her to expertly attack your systems, analyze your defenses, and create the best strategy to make them iron-clad. Her history affords her the ability to help you develop and manage effective audit, controls, and security programs that deliver solid and reliable compliance results. Her forte is designing and implementing successful security strategies to fit your business today and in the future.
She has a demonstrated track record of building and growing compliance programs from scratch for startups, service providers, and Level 1 merchants. Her talents lie in creating solutions where there were none before, in monitoring, measuring, and managing existing solutions to get you the best performance and return on investment, and in maturing and optimizing your systems and processes to gain efficiency and lessen overhead throughout their lifecycles.
After spending the first years of her career in the health care industry, Patrice co-founded several QSA and IT consulting businesses. She continued her work with several portfolio companies to deploy solutions on legacy systems and implement security practices to achieve PCI compliance for Level 1 merchants, implement internal controls and audit programs for managed security services providers, and deploy and maintain network and security infrastructure for Fortune 50 corporations. Patrice also conducts compliance assessments for PCI DSS, NIST, HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, FFIEC, ISO, and other standards.
Contact Patrice at patrice@kraasecurity.com
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Torrance, CA 90505
Email: info@kraasecurity.com
Office: 888-572-2911
