Contributing Writer

William Malik

William Malik is VP of Infrastructure Strategies at Trend Micro. As a Founder of Gartner’s Information Security Strategies service in the mid-1990s, Malik has deep expertise in information security matters. He has spoken internationally on information security, identity management, privacy, business continuity, and enterprise architecture. During his IBM career he guided the mainframe operating system zOS (then MVS) through the process leading to a NIST/NSA B1-level security rating. He taught a graduate class on information security policy at Georgia Tech and authored the chapter “Information Security Policy in the US National Context” for the text Information Security: Policy, Processes, and Practices, Detmar Straub, et al., editors. M. E. Sharpe, 2008. Malik graduated from MIT with a degree in mathematics in 1973.