TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT Com Security (formerly Integralis), one of the largest global providers of information security and risk management solutions in North America, announced its strategic partnership with the Tampa Bay Technology Forum as it continues to expand its presence in the Southeastern United States.
The Tampa Bay Technology Forum is a membership organization dedicated to growing and promoting Tampa Bay’s technology culture through events, education, networking, advocacy, and philanthropy programs. As a strategic partner to the Tampa Bay Technology Forum, NTT Com Security will co-host events, support marketing initiatives, and offer industry expertise to assist in furthering the organization’s mission to make Tampa Bay an area where technology, business, and innovation thrives. Doug Bogle, regional director for the southeast, NTT Com Security, will serve as a member of the Tampa Bay Technology Forum board.
Doug Bogle, regional director for the southeast, NTT Com Security said: “Throughout the past year, NTT Com Security has worked hard to increase and expand its presence across the continental US, including a strong focus in regional innovation hubs, including the Southeast. Working with the Tampa Bay Technology Forum has allowed us to create and cultivate valuable relationships with the security community in the area. We are now looking forward to developing captivating security-focused events with the Tampa Bay Technology Forum team.”
NTT Com Security is supporting a number of events in partnership with the Tampa Bay Technology Forum, which have already included: ‘Get Wired to the Future’, a keynote by Bill Wasik, best-selling author and senior editor at Wired magazine, as well as the Forum’s 10th Annual Industry Achievement Awards Gala.
NTT Com Security is firmly committed to expanding regional activities across the continental US, including its exciting plans for the Southeast. The company recently led the New England Security Summit in Connecticut, held an event focused on advanced threat protection on the West Coast, and is looking forward to the February IT Executives Council, hosted alongside Tampa Bay Technology Forum.
Many commentators and analysts predict that a strong part of the next tech revolution will take place in entirely new regional centers, including the Southeastern US. As recently reported in Forbes, double-digit tech job expansions indicate that America’s emerging high-tech hotspots will far more likely boom in the emerging cities of Florida, North Carolina or Maryland, rather than legacy centers in Manhattan or Silicon Valley. Research by Praxis Strategy Group specifically lists Baltimore, Raleigh, and Jacksonville in its top ten cities for growth in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) employment over the past two years.
NTT Com Security and Tampa Bay Technology Forum are already planning new events to address the top concerns of CIOs and decision makers, including emerging security trends, threats, and solutions.
Heather Kenyon, CEO, Tampa Bay Technology Forum said: “We are pleased to have NTT Com Security as a partner. The Tampa Bay Technology Forum is successful because it brings together industry leaders and top thinkers. NTT Com Security’s partnership enhances our ability to provide our membership with critical information on security topics that are relevant to all organizations.”
To learn more about the Tampa Bay Technology Forum and its past, current and upcoming events, please visit the website here.
About NTT Com Security (formerly Integralis)
NTT Com Security (formerly Integralis) is a global information security and risk management organization, which delivers a portfolio of managed security, business infrastructure, consulting and technology integration services through its WideAngle brand. NTT Com Security helps organizations lower their IT costs and increase the depth of IT security protection, risk management, compliance and service availability. NTT Com Security AG, is headquartered in Ismaning, Germany and part of the NTT Communications Group, owned by NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation), one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world. For more information, visit http://www.nttcomsecurity.com
About Tampa Bay Technology Forum
Tampa Bay Technology Forum is dedicated to growing and promoting Tampa Bay's technology eco-system through events, education, networking, advocacy and philanthropy programs, providing targeted forums to bring technology and business leaders, investors, government, researchers and educators together. It provides a series of programs and events to advance the industry in the region, in the belief that the technology community holds the key to rapid economic advancement, and that it is Florida’s manufacturing industry for the future. Today its primary mission is to impact unemployment in the area. For this reason, technology entrepreneurship is an important part of the Forum’s overall strategy, and key to Florida’s job growth. By focusing on these areas, the Tampa Bay Technology Forum community will be the driver for a new and stable economy in Florida.
For more information, visit: www.tbtf.org