Pat Botz—VP Security Consulting
Pat heads up security consulting for Group8, bringing his extensive experience in system security planning to our customers.
Prior to joining Group8, Pat served as the Lead Security Architect and Team Leader for the IBM, working on some of the most widely used midrange servers is the business world. For IBM he identified, defined, planned and/or implemented numerous enhancements to the computing platform that powers much of the Fortune 500. Also while at IBM he led the design and development effort for release 2 of the IBM Virtualization Engine, a product that ties together numerous technologies, products, and systems. As the Lead Security Architect he focused on authentication, authorization, auditing, and ease of use.
Following his work on System i and the IBM Virtualization Engine, Pat founded the IBM Lab Services security consulting practice with a primary focus on helping customers meet various industry regulations such as SOX, PCI DSS, and SAS 70. He additionally worked to help customers improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their current security management processes, assisting them with moving to exclusionary access control models, elminating passwords in various environments, managing User IDs, implementing encryption, and auditing on various platforms.
Pat is co-author of the book Expert’s Guide to OS/400 and i5/OS Security, and has published numerous articles in the trade press and IBM magazines. He is also a noted worldwide security conference speaker, presenting at various conferences and in webcasts including COMMON, IBM Technical Conference, various user groups, St. Cloud State University Security conference, and IBM Business Partner conferences.
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