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 Mandy
Andress CISSP, SSCP, CPA, CISA
Mandy is Founder and President of ArcSec Technologies, a security
consulting firm specializing in product/technology analysis. Before
starting ArcSec Technologies, Mandy worked for Exxon, USA and several
Big 5 accounting firms, including Deloitte & Touche and Ernst
& Young. At Exxon, Mandy worked in the internal audit
department, performing information system controls reviews for Exxon
USA departments and subsidiaries. At Deloitte & Touche,
she focused on security controls analysis, performing many security
audits in the healthcare, financial services, oil and gas, and energy
industries. At Ernst & Young, Mandy increased her technical
skills by performing vulnerability assessments, firewall reviews,
PKI analysis and deployment, security architecture design, and developing
and deploying VPN solutions. While at Ernst & Young, Mandy gained
extensive hands-on experience with numerous security products and
technologies.
After leaving the Big 5, Mandy became Director
of Security for Privada, Inc., a privacy startup in San Jose. At Privada,
Mandy helped develop security policies, secure network design, develop Firewall/VPN
solutions, increase physical security, secure product design, and periodic network
vulnerability testing.
Mandy has written numerous security product and technology reviews
for InfoWorld magazine and other publications including Information
Security Magazine, Federal Computer Week, Internet Security Advisor,
and IBM DeveloperWorks. She is also a frequent presenter at
conferences, including Networld+Interop, Black Hat, and TISC.
Mandy holds a Bachelor of Business Administration
- Accounting and a Master of Science - MIS from Texas A&M University.
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