Wild ’87 Joins QTS as CISO

QTS Realty Trust, an international provider of data center, managed hosting and cloud services, announced that Andrew Wild, formerly with Lancope, now a part of Cisco has joined the company as Chief Information Security Officer. Wild, who has more than 25 years of information security and risk management experience, has been successful in building corporate information security programs and managing groups of engineers to provide network visibility and security intelligence to defend enterprises against the latest threats."Security threats are evolving by the day and our commitment to ensuring the security and compliance of our customers' data made it paramount to invest in a Chief Information Security Officer position," said Jon Greaves, Chief Technology Officer – QTS. "As one of the first data center companies to have a CISO, we believe those customers who continue to embrace hybrid cloud solutions will see that we not only understand the complexity, but also the importance of providing secure environments. Andrew was the perfect choice based on his thought leadership in implementing and securing cloud and 'as a service' environments, coupled with his knowledge of the risk management and information security challenges faced by today's organizations," he added. Read More