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Over the past 28-plus years of his security career, Predrag "Pez" Zivic has worked for Global Fortune 1000 clients as a senior advisor on cybersecurity, risk and governance. As a recognized expert in technology, security and privacy methodologies, and compliance, Pez has been instrumental in the launch and successful management of security and risk groups at Scienton, Secure-IT, GE Capital and Platinum Technology. He authored two patents: Information Security Model® and Trust Model Router®. At Scienton, Pez has successfully managed and led Risk Cube® software product development and marketing. He introduced new industry security paradigms: “Service Defense in Depth,” “DOS Attack Classification” and “Using WAF to Defend Against Malware.” At Palo Alto Networks, he is working on improving Docker, public, private and hybrid cloud security. Currently working on security at the stealth startup.
Pez was among the first 100 professionals in the world to be ISO17799/BS7799 ISMS Lead Audit-certified. He prototyped the Certified Solaris Security Administrator certification and includes the CISSP and CISA among his certifcations. He presented at the CIO SUMMIT, Managing IT Risk, EICAR conference, SANS conference, ISSA seminars, Regional Atlantic Council , InfoSecurity Canada 2004 and 2005, Nebraska CERT, SPIE Symposium, TASK, OpenGroup, ECIW2011 Beijing, LASCON OWASP, AltSecCon and others.