As chief solutions architect for Futurex, a trusted provider of hardened enterprise data security solutions, David Close heads up major projects involving the design, development, and deployment of mission critical systems used by organizations for their cryptographic needs, including the secure encryption, storage, transmission, and certification of sensitive data. Close is a subject matter expert in enterprise key management best practices and systems architecture and infrastructure design. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from St. Mary’s University.