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Summary

The only way to stem the tide of red ink around the failure of enterprises and governments to
protect their constituents, employees and customer involves cyber testing to ensure that
networks are not vulnerable to cyberattacks, and for training administrative personnel to react in
real-time to these attacks.

While cyber testing is difficult, existing technologies for public and private cloud sandboxing can
be readily applied to the problem. Sandboxing ensures that testing is isolated from production,
accurately replicates the real production network environment, traffic and load, and allows for
system-wide testing of applications, network security devices, and the teams that are in place to
respond to cyber threats in real time.

About the Author

Joan Wrabetz is the Chief Technology for QualiSystems. Prior to her current
role, she was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the
Emerging Product Division of EMC.

Joan has over 20 years of executive management experience at public and
privately held technology companies. She has been an executive at a
number of startup technology companies, has been a Venture Partner with
BlueStream Ventures, and has been on the board of directors or advisory
board of many early stage technology companies. She was the founder and CEO of Aumni
Data, a developer of big data analytics technology. She was the CEO of Tricord Systems
(acquired by Adaptec), one of the first companies to introduce a commercial product based on
distributed file system technology. Earlier, Ms. Wrabetz was the Vice President and General
Manager for SAN operations at StorageTek, a $650M revenue business, responsible for all
open systems products, including tape libraries, disk systems, and SAN switches. Prior to
joining StorageTek, Ms. Wrabetz was the founder and CEO of Aggregate Computing, a grid
computing software company, acquired by Platinum Technologies. Prior to Aggregate, Ms.
Wrabetz held management and senior technical positions at Control Data Corporation and SRI
International.
Ms. Wrabetz holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, an MSEE from Stanford
University, and BSEE from Yale University. She has taught as an adjunct faculty member at the
University of St. Thomas, St. Mary’s University, and at the Carlson School of Business at the
University of Minnesota. She holds patents in load balancing, distributed systems and machine
learning classification and analytics.

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