Monday, January 26, 2009

10 Tech People You Should Know -- Networkworld January 5, 2009




Earlier this month Network World posted a supplemental article titled “Ten Tech
People You Should Know” -- http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2009/outlook/010509-tech-people-to-know.html?page=4

This list brought together an impressive list of industry leaders, shapers, dreamers and thinkers. The list included:

John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems
Paul Maritz, CEO, VMware
Mike Neil, General Manager of virtualization strategy, Microsoft
Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President of the Windows and Windows Live engineering group, Microsoft
The Google triumvirate: Eric Schmidt, CEO; Larry Page, president of products; Sergey Brin, president of technology
John Lilly, CEO, Mozilla
Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook
Joshua Corman, principal security strategist, IBM Internet Security Systems division
Amit Jasuja, vice president of product development for identity management, Oracle
Kenneth Brill, executive director, Uptime Institute

Some of these people are quite familiar, others less so however no less important by virtue of their inclusion on this list. Josh Corman falls into this latter category. Many in the industry and no doubt several reading this blog today do not know who Josh is or why he’s on this list. I encourage them all to get to know Josh’s work and name as they’ll be seeing more of both to come. I know Josh both personally and professionally. In fact, he’s not only my friend but a trusted confidant and sounding board of ideas. He’s dedicated, articulate, and sincere in his work and relationships. Josh and I first became acquainted while being in the employ of Internet Security Systems (ISS), now IBM Internet Security Systems where Josh still resides. We quickly became friends and tight colleagues and I’m proud of his achievement as I believe he’s worked diligently to arrive in this position. It’s an honor to be nominated and included amongst such names in the industry; it is, I imagine both humbling and exhilarating. Josh and I spoke about his inclusion and on the list and I wanted to publicly give him the credit he deserves and say job well done. Josh, you deserve it and I couldn’t be happier for you! Keep up the good work, the industry needs more folks to take up the charge and challenge that which is considered the ‘standard’ in order to ensure that we faint not in our endeavors and struggles to secure ourselves and our futures. Kudos Josh!

For more on some of Josh’s work see the following link:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/050108-interop-dirty-security-secrets.html

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