Amrit Williams is the CTO of CloudPassage and former director of emerging security technologies and CTO for mobile computing at IBM. He joined IBM when it acquired BigFix, an enterprise systems and security management firm, where Williams was CTO. Prior to BigFix, Williams was a research director in the Information Security and Risk Research Practice at Gartner, where he covered vulnerability and threat management. Williams was a director of engineering for nCircle Network Security and has held management posts at Consilient, Network Associates, and McAfee Associates.