Cloud Computing and Technology Update (E1511769)

Clifford Cook, CPA founded Excalibur Systems in 1986 and has assisted companies with the implementation, management, and security of their digital assets. As a leading managed services provider for the past 28 years, Excalibur Systems specializes in making best of breed technology understandable and available to small and medium sized businesses.

Mr. Cook has designed, implemented, and managed data center and wide area network infrastructures throughout the US and Canada. His largest implementation was over 120 locations, with 6 data centers, and over 4,000 users. His CPA background along with his passion for technology has enabled him to effectively communicate and educate the chief executive in the need for digital security and risk mitigation strategies. From the network operations center in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, Mr. Cook and staff manage the monitoring, remediation, and compliance of customers’ systems on a 24 x 7 basis.

Mr. Cook holds a BA from Rutgers in accounting and an MBA with distinction from Pace University in Information Systems and Finance. He also has certifications from Cisco, Checkpoint, VMWare, Citrix, and Hewlett Packard. He is a member of the AICPA and is active in the NJCPA Bergen Chapter.

Lilibeth Hanlon, CPA is the founder of Bridge Strategies LLC providing Governance, IT Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance (GRC) since 2009. Her professional career includes ten years at Deloitte and PwC in senior audit and advisory roles. In addition, she has held corporate internal audit, CFO, CIO and reengineering financial leadership roles with McGraw Hill, AT&T and Parker Hannifin.

She is a frequent lecturer for CPAs and has developed certification questions for the AICPA CITP, AICPA Codification and the IMA CMA certification. She enjoys bridging financial governance with IT governance enabling company to become more competitive and sustainable in a complex global economy.

She is a member of the NY Metro Cloud Security Alliance and the CISSP NJ Chapter to identify emerging trends and best practices. She is a member of the AICPA, IMA, FEI and ISACA. She also works with Thomson Reuters with CPE and CPA review programs.