Security Guru guides our PCI compliance

E-business Coach has engaged the services of Mark Kadrich and his team at The Security Consortium to guide us through an independent third-party audit of our compliance to the Payment Card Industry's Data Security Standard. We couldn't be happier to have this security guru on our side. Kadrich provides the voice of reason and a been-there, done-that perspective that's proved invaluable so far.

Our auditors at SecurityMetrics are great at holding our feet to the fire for every last nuance and detail of compliance. Kadrich helps us find the workable way through the requirements and presents options that keep the integrity of our e-commerce platform assured. The authority he brings to our deliberations gives confidence and speed to our decision-making about security matters. We'd risk getting bogged down without his guidance.

Kadrich's counsel aids us in such matters as intrusion detection systems (a subject on which he has presented at Black Hat Briefings in Europe), configuration of firewall devices in a data center (with which he's familiar going back to the days he was technical director at Counterpane Security), and policies to ensure that incidents are treated with rigor (a practice he mastered as Senior Manager of Network and Endpoint Security at Symantec). For the past 20 years, he's been a contributing member of the security community. Now E-business Coach clients get the benefit of his expertise in systems level design, policy generation, end point security, and risk management .

Kadrich writes regularly on network security topics from his security blog at Network World, and authored Endpoint Security, published in 2007 by Addison Wesley.