Tim Woods brings more than 20 years of leadership experience to his role as VP of Technology Alliances at FireMon, where he has global responsibility for the sales engineering organization. Tim’s “lead, follow or get out of the way” philosophy helped him grow his career from a systems engineer to leading a team of 20 engineers. As a leader, his passion is educating his engineers and clients on new and emerging technologies.
In the simplest terms, the “attack surface” is the sum total of resources exposed to exploit within your enterprise. Defending the attack surface was a lot less complicated when a defined corporate “perimeter” existed, neatly separating a company’s assets from the outside world. But, next-gen technologies (e.g., cloud computing and software-defined networking) have dissolved the perimeter, causing the attack surface to grow exponentially.
