Richard S. Dobrow Richard serves as President and co-founder of Guarded Networks, Inc. a full service network security firm based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida with additional offices in South America. Guarded Networks is a full service network security firm with strategic partnerships with vendors such as Checkpoint, Cisco Systems, Netscreen, Sonicwall, Symantec, Watchguard and other leading security vendors to architect, deploy and manage comprehensive security solutions for a broad range of customers. Guarded Networks currently manages the information security needs of more than 100 community banks in the Southeast United States. Before forming Guarded Networks, Richard has served as a Practice Leader for leading professional services companies such as Price Waterhouse and Andersen in their Technology Risk businesses for the past 10 years. Over the past ten years Richard has aided Fortune 500 companies and Financial Institutions of all sizes build secure network architectures, assess impact of security related events and help to develop corporate-wide information security frameworks. Richard is experienced in regulatory compliance requirements of financial institutions and has been involved in many cases of aiding financial institutions meet their regulatory compliance requirements by working closely with FDIC, Federal Reserve Bank, OCC, OTS and NCUA examiners. Richard has obtained license as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and is a member of the Association of Fraud Examiners. Richard currently develops curriculum for information security programs at the University level and is an instructor of Information Security in Florida International University's Masters of Information Systems program.