Cybercrime: Red Carpet Treatment In Trendy Tribeca: A movie documentary funded by Fortify debuted last month; its aim, to convey the grim reality of cybercrime and be more compelling than PowerPoint slides.

Its not often that bank CIOs and CISOs get invited to walk the red carpet at a film premiere, but it was a full house at the Tribeca Grand Hotels screening room at the end of January when Fortify Software held the New York premiere of its documentary The New Face of Cybercrime.

While it would be a stretch to say that Sundance had nothing on this premiere, it did draw a crowd. There were minor celebritiescounting prolific software security author Gary McGraw, and Ted Schlein, the venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers who cut his info security teeth bringing McAfee to market. There was an all-but-unknown director onstage thanking his editors and crew. …