Vik Phatak serves as Chairman and CTO of NSS Labs. He most recently served as CTO for Ambiron Trustwave (ATW), the world’s largest PCI assessor. Vik joined ATW following its acquisition of Lucid Security Corporation, a company founded by Mr. Phatak in 2002. Mr. Phatak is an intrusion prevention pioneer and one of the Information Security industry’s foremost thought leaders on vulnerability management and threat protection. Prior to Lucid, Phatak served as Global Manager of Enterprise Internet and Security Services at Teleflex, a publicly-traded global manufacturing company, and served as a co-founder of Intermedia Sciences Group, Inc., a security consulting firm.