About Us

Understanding how your company faces information security and risk management is an undertaking that requires time, experience, and knowledge. Entrust your Information Security to the right people. For more information, call our toll-free number, 877-221-7058.

Management Team

Bob Mathison
President

Thirty years of sales and management  experience in the high technology field. Bob has worked at industry leaders such as Data Systems Network Corporation, G E Capital and Automatic Data Corporation. He has experience in most facets of the IT business. He encourages sales representatives to be responsive to customers individual needs by providing best solutions.

Charlie Christianson
Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Entrepreneurial by nature, Charlie Christianson began his experience in the IT industry back in 1987 with his first IT business designing, manufacturing and marketing a host of hardware and software products for the original Commodore 64 computer. As his experience grew, he migrated his company into the IT Solutions business with CMD Technology Group. Today, CMD is a full service IT Solutions company servicing organizations of all sizes in many business and public sectors.

In 2007, he and his partners founded Peritus Security Partners, LLC. Peritus is a company that specializes in Information Security Compliance. Specializing in Assessments, Audits and Penetration Testing for financials, business and most recently has established itself as a front runner in compliance solutions for Massachusetts regulation 201CMR17.

His understanding of technology and desire to provide only the highest quality solutions for his clients, Charlie has become a trusted partner in building technology and compliance solutions.

Kurt Baumgarten, CISA, CGEIT
Vice President of Information Security

Kurt is a lecturer, consultant, and the developer of the DDIPS intrusion prevention technology as well as a pioneer in using best practices frameworks for the improvement of information technology security programs and management systems. Mr. Baumgarten has authored multiple articles about the business benefits of sound information technology and information assurance practices, is often quoted in publications such as CIO Magazine, SC Magazine, and is an author of the Computer Security Handbook, 5th edition. Kurt assists businesses and government agencies in defining strategic plans that enhance IT and IA as positive value chain modifiers, and holds both a Master of Science in Information Assurance and an MBA with a concentration in E-Commerce. He has more than 20 years of experience in IT infrastructure and Information Security and is an active member of ISSA, ISACA, ISSSP, and the MIT Enterprise Forum. Mr. Baumgarten periodically acts as an Adjunct Professor of Information Assurance as well as an Interim Director within external organizations in order to facilitate strategic operational changes in IT and Information Security.

 

About Peritus Security

Peritus was formed to meet the needs of an ever changing Information Security Landscape.  The Peritus team of experienced professionals are able to identify, diagnose, predict, and mitigate threats to the well being of a business.  Whether you need risk assessment, an audit, or to execute a penetration test, Peritus has the capability to do it.  Peritus can help with documenting your entire organizational security processes, assist with policy creation and enforcements, and make determinations about where operations need to be secured.

The team is made up of individuals with many years of experience in technology and information security. All compliance assessments and audits are reviewed and signed by a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Improving the Relationship

" At Peritus, we are constantly looking for better ways to support our customer's  information security and risk management needs.  Security and compliance has become a bigger part of many businesses in the last few years, and shows no sign of slowing.  With greater emphasis now being put on protecting the safety of customer information in the wake of so many recent failures by large corporations, the nature of how companies do business in the electronic age changes the way that businesses must conduct themselves.   At Peritus Security Partners we pride ourselves on the long-term relationships that we build with our customers.  We strive to become an information security partner that assists you with your immediate needs and is available when you have questions. Our method of achieving secure and compliant environments means that we sit with you and speak in plain terms about your security and compliance needs, and more importantly, listen to your questions."

- Kurt Baumgarten, Vice President of Information Security