Maria Cirino, Co-Founder and Managing Director, .406 Ventures Maria is co-founder and managing director of .406 Ventures, a new VC Firm focused on early stage investments in information security, IT, and technology driven services. She currently serves as an active investor, director and/or chairman in four venture-backed companies including Veracode, Memento, NameMedia and Bit9. Maria brings 21 years of entrepreneurial, operating and senior management experience in venture-backed technology companies. Most recently, she served as an SVP of VeriSign following its 2005 $142 million acquisition of Guardent -- a Sequoia, Charles River and NEA backed IT security company that she co-founded and led as CEO and Chairman. In this role, Maria received several industry honors and awards, including "Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003." Prior to Guardent, Maria was Senior Vice President responsible for sales and marketing at i-Cube, an IT services company, Which was acquired in 1999 by Razorfish for $1.8 billion. Prior to Razorfish, she was responsible for North American sales at Shiva, the category creating remote access company from 1993 to 1997 and prior to Shiva Cirino held various management positions at Lotus Development Corporation. Paul Proctor, Vice President, Security and Risk Practice, Gartner Research Mr. Proctor has been involved in information security since 1985. He was founder and CTO of two security technology companies and developed both first- and second-generation, host-based intrusion-detection technologies. Mr. Proctor is a recognized expert in the field of information security and associated regulatory compliance issues surrounding the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Sarbanes-Oxley, and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). He has authored two Prentice Hall books and many white papers and articles. Mr. Proctor is an accomplished public speaker and was recognized for his expertise by being appointed to the original Telecommunications Infrastructure Protection working group used by Congress to understand critical infrastructure protection issues prior to the terrorist attack of Sept. 11. Previously, he worked for SAIC, Centrax, CyberSafe, Network Flight Recorder and Practical Security.