Our Speaker, Andrew Wild, Chief Information Security Officer QTS
Andrew Wild is currently the executive vice president of converged security at QTS Data Centers, a leading provider of secure, compliant, data center solutions. Mr. Wild has spent over 25 years developing effective, customer-driven information security, incident response, compliance and secure networking programs for IT and security organizations including Lancope, Qualys, EMC, and Transaction Network Services, with significant experience building and securing cloud and SaaS environments.
Most recently, Mr. Wild was the CISO for security solution provider Lancope, now a part of Cisco, where he was responsible for the risk management, security and compliance of both the internal enterprise network and Lancope’s enterprise network visibility and security intelligence solution, Stealthwatch. Prior to joining Lancope, Mr. Wild was the CSO for security solution provider Qualys, where he was responsible for the risk management, security and compliance of both the internal enterprise network and the production SaaS environments.
Before focusing on information security and risk management, Mr. Wild held management and network engineering roles with Transaction Network Services, British Telecom and Sprint, as well as five years as an officer in the United States Army Signal Corps.
Mr. Wild holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and the George Washington University, respectively.