Alex Holden serves as Cyopsis's Director of Enterprise Security/Senior Intelligence Investigator. He assists Cyopsis clients with IT security, investigative, and forensics issues, ranging from penetration testing and critical incident response to full‐scale security solutions. Mr. Holden is a nationally recognized expert in designing, maintaining, and auditing information security solutions. He has over 15 years' experience in computer security and networking, including development of several award winning security systems and enterprises. Mr. Holden designs, implements, and maintains companywide, end to end security solutions, working with all areas of a company to assess security risks, design policies to comply with SEC/FINRA, PCI, SOX, and HIPAA regulations, identify and fix security issues, and successfully lead the enterprise to pass internal and external IT security audits.

Prior to joining Cyopsis, Mr. Holden worked for 10 years as Chief Information Security Officer for a large brokerage firm. He also has extensive experience in Windows, Unix, and network administration and corporate governance. He has conducted over 160 security audits of companies in the financial, medical, retail, manufacturing, and other fields. These audits yielded an exceptional 100% success rate in penetration testing from data access to full system control and prevented ongoing and potential losses estimated at $8 billion USD. During his career, Mr. Holden has evaluated over 600 commercial software solutions and identified and reported to vendors over 1,250 vulnerabilities. He holds a number of IT certifications, including as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Mr. Holden is a frequent speaker on IT security issues, teaches IT and business security education programs, and consults extensively with vendors, open source projects, and major media on cybersecurity and cybercrime.

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