Paul E. Proctor

Mr. Paul E.
Proctor is Research Vice President and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner Research Group.
He is the chief of research for security and risk management.
He helps organizations build mature risk and security programs that are aligned with business need.
His coverage includes board reporting, KRI development, risk assessment and GRC technologies.
Mr. Proctor has been involved in various aspects of risk management since 1985.
He was founder and CTO of two technology companies and developed first- and second-generation host-based intrusion-detection technologies.
Mr. Proctor was 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.
He has worked for SAIC where he was Engineering Manager for 10 years.
He was a Founder and the Chief Technology Officer of Centrax Corporation for two years, and the Chief Technology Officer at Cybersafe Corp.
for three years.
He also worked at Network Flight Recorder and Practical Security.
Mr. Proctor holds a B.S.
in Mathematics/Computer Science from the University of Illinois.
He has authored two books published by Prentice Hall.