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Advisory Experts
Vinton G. Cerf is the former senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI. In this role, he helped to guide corporate strategy development from a technical perspective. Previously, he served as MCI's senior vice president of Architecture and Technology, leading a team of architects and engineers to design advanced networking frameworks, including Internet-based solutions for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use.
Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM Alan M. Turing award, sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science," in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols. In November 2005, President George Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their work. The medal is the highest civilian award given by the United States to its citizens.
Prior to rejoining MCI in 1994, Cerf was vice president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982-1986, he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet.
During his tenure from 1976-1982 with the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related packet data and security technologies.
Vint Cerf serves as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He served as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995 and in 1999 served a term as chairman of the Board. In addition, Cerf is honorary chairman of the IPv6 Forum, dedicated to raising awareness and speeding introduction of the new Internet protocol. Cerf served as a member of the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001 and serves on several national, state and industry committees focused on cyber security. Cerf sits on the Board of Directors for the Endowment for Excellence in Education, Avanex Corporation and the ClearSight Systems Corporation. Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering.
Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet. These include the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the National Medal of Science from Tunisia, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the NEC Computer and Communications Prize, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award, the ACM Software and Systems Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the Computer and Communications Industries Association Industry Legend Award, installation in the Inventors Hall of Fame, the Yuri Rubinsky Web Award, the Kilby Award , the Yankee Group/Interop/Network World Lifetime Achievement Award, the George R. Stibitz Award, the Werner Wolter Award, the Andrew Saks Engineering Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the Computerworld/Smithsonian Leadership Award, the J.D. Edwards Leadership Award for Collaboration, World Institute on Disability Annual award and the Library of Congress Bicentennial Living Legend medal.
In December 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing People."
In addition to his work on behalf of MCI and the Internet, Cerf has served as a technical advisor to production for the "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict" television series and made a special guest appearance on the program in May 1998. Cerf has appeared on television programs NextWave with Leonard Nimoy and on World Business Review with Alexander Haig and Caspar Weinberger. He is also a distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he is working on the design of an interplanetary Internet.
Cerf holds a bachelor of science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and master of science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary doctorate degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich; Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma; Capitol College, Maryland; Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania; George Mason University, Virginia; Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; Brooklyn Polytechnic; and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
His personal interests include fine wine, gourmet cooking and science fiction. Cerf and his wife Sigrid were married in 1966 and have two sons, David and Bennett.
Vint was seated on the ICANN Board of Directors at the 1999 annual meeting, having been selected by the Protocol Supporting Organization. He was then selected by the nominating committee for a term on the Board of Directors that ran from June 2003 through the 2004 annual meeting.
At the end of that term, he was selected by the 2004 Nominating Committee to an additional term, which ran from the end of the 2004 annual meeting through the conclusion of the ICANN annual meeting in 2007. VCerf@SecureITExperts.com
H. Peet Rapp, MBA CISA – has been involved in Information Technology for nearly 30 years beginning in the areas of technical sales, business development and IT analysis. Since 2003 he provided clients Sarbanes-Oxley IT compliance consulting, IT compliance auditing, developed best practice IT control frameworks, PII compliance and Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity advisories. He is an observing member of the board of directors on the New England Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA).
In 2009, Peet concentrated on the emerging issues of Cloud Computing Security and Audit-ability. He is a member of the Cloud Security Alliance, evolving into a recognized “thought leader” in this field. He is a co-author of the recent ISACA position paper Cloud Computing: Business Benefits With Security, Governance and Assurance Perspectives. He is currently presenting this issue to all New England area ISACA chapters, and provides Cloud Security advisory to venture capitalist firms.Peet has an engineering degree cum laude, an MBA, and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He is currently in the process obtaining his Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). PRapp@SecureITExperts.com
Chris Noell CISSP
Chris Noell is the Executive Vice President of Product Management at TruArx, has close to fifteen years of information technology experience and has focused for the last six years on payments security. Noell is responsible for overall product management, marketing, and development, including TruArx’ TruPCI and PCI eLearning offerings.
Noell has spent his career dealing with the design, implementation and security of enterprise applications, databases, and networks. In addition to performing assessments, Noell has personally trained thousands of IT professionals on the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. Noell is an active member in payments security standards bodies such as the PCI Security Standards Council and ANSI X9. Currently, he has participated in the Preauthorization Significant Interest Group (SIG). As a leader in the payments community, Chris frequently speaks on payments security at conferences and has been quoted by leading news organizations including The Wall Street Journal, CSO Magazine, IT Audit, and eWeek as well as the payments trade press. Chris graduated with a MBA and BA from the University of Texas.
Prior to TruArx, Noell has been an executive at leading information security organizations such as Solutionary, Verisign, and Cabletron. CNoell@SecureITExperts.com
Michael J. Corby, CCP, PMP, CISSP Michael Corby has over 42 years of experience in IT strategy, operations, development and security. He has successfully managed large projects, developed flexible IT infrastructures and sound security organizations for hundreds of the world’s most successful organizations. He was instrumental in founding the organization that established the Information Security professional credential “the CISSP”). In 1992, Mike was named the first recipient of the Computer Security Institute’s “Lifetime Achievement Award.” A frequent global speaker and author for conferences in the US and Internationally, he formerly held executive positions with several global consulting organizations including Marsh & McLennan, Netigy (net’ – ih – gee) Corporation and QinetiQ (kih – net’ – ick) and Gartner Consulting. He was formerly CIO for a division of Ashland Oil and for Bain & Company. A business owner for over 20 years (M Corby & Associates, Inc.) and community supporter, he has established a reputation for creativity and excellence in technology and its application to business needs.
He has been certified by Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional (PMP), is a Certified by Gartner as a Consulting Engagement Manager and has attained proficiency level in I/T Process Control Architecture. Mike holds a bachelor’s degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), is a member of the MSIA (Masters of Science - Information Assurance) faculty at Norwich University and an instructor in the Bentley College MBA program. He is also a Certified Computer Professional (CCP) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). A member of the Computer Security Institute (CSI), Association of Contingency Planners (ACP) and Project Management Institute (PMI), Mike is a frequent speaker, author and Advisory Board member for several corporations. He is also a member of the Worcester, Massachusetts, Regional Chamber of Commerce, and presently serves as committee chairman. He has been a participant member of the Human Firewall Council — a consortium of security experts from government, private, and non‑profit sectors organized to promote security awareness and accountability at all organizational levels. MCorby@SecureITExperts.com See Mike's White Paper on 12 Attributes of a Successful Business Continuity Plan. Click on Link 12 Attributes
Al Brusewitz, CISSP, CISM Al was the first CISO for the County of Los Angeles with responsibilities to develop and implement a countywide information security strategy and direct various information security initiatives. In addition to information security, Al was charged with implementation of HIPAA security compliance related to health services and mental health programs.
Prior to joining the County of Los Angeles, he was a Product Development Director with TRW developing business continuity services. He also served as a Senior Manager with KPMG leading consulting teams in system vulnerability assessments, security strategy development and business continuity planning.
Mr. Brusewitz was the Director of Information Security and Disaster Recovery Planning for Rockwell International Corporation for six years prior to his employment with KPMG. In that position, he supervised a staff of security experts in all aspects of security and business continuity planning for the entire corporation. His total career with Rockwell spanned 20 years in various IT positions and increasing levels of responsibility.
Mr. Brusewitz is a nationally known expert in information security and participates in various professional security organizations. He has served as a speaker at various forums and is a past president of the Los Angeles County chapter of Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). ABrusewitz@SecureITExperts.com
Deanna Summerly, CISM, CISSP Deanna Summerly has twenty years of proven experience in information security and privacy as demonstrated in the performance of security and privacy compliance and engineering for various private and public sector clients. She was the Vice President of Security Consulting Services at Guardent and was responsible for ensuring the success, performance, and growth of the professional services organization. In addition, Deanna was responsible for overall project management, client relations, and services process and methodology development. She has managed large security consulting projects, provided corporate information security services, performed hundreds of information security and privacy assessments, risk assessments, PCI compliance assessments, and security policies and procedure review and development for a wide variety of commercial customers in the financial, oil, utilities, pharmaceutical, technology, sports apparel industries as well as various state, federal, and military organizations.
Deanna has been responsible for providing day-to-day project management for several large security projects, developing security and privacy compliance programs, establishing PCI compliance action plans, performing computer and network information risk assessments, analyzing business infrastructures for security vulnerabilities / weaknesses, developing security policies, and developing cost-effective security solutions. She has developed leading consulting teams at SAIC, Global Integrity, Predictive Systems, and Guardent delivering a broad array of security and privacy services to clients. DSummerly@SecureITExperts.com
Mark Winter has been a senior IT Executive for major corporations for over 25 years. He is currently CIO for Epic Production Technologies, previous eight years he was Executive Vice President for Deluxe Laboratories, in the entertainment industry. He has also held executive IT positions for organizations in mining, pharmaceutical, logistics and other entertainment companies. In addition, Mark ran his own 40 person consulting organization with a global client base in North America, South America and Europe. Mark’s major focus is in alignment and integration of IT Strategy with the business strategy, building and developing IT organizations, methodology and process management. MWinter@SecureITExperts.com
Michael Higgins Mr. Higgins is a highly respected Information Security Expert whose interviews, publications and appearances have included:
National Public Radio, Washington Post, NBC Nightly News, USA Today, Fortune Magazine, Forbes Magazine,
Computer World, CFO Magazine, Information Weekly, Network Computing, and Reuters. Mr. Higgins is a creative security executive consistently reducing risk to the bottom line, while enhancing competitive position for organizations he has supported. MHiggins@SecureITExperts.com
Reid Fudge, CISSP, CISA Reid Fudge is the Director of Information Security for Pulte Mortgage and is responsible for developing and managing Pulte Mortgage’s enterprise security program. Reid has 20 plus years of information technology experiance. Over 15 years of this experience has been in the direct support of the IT Security profession. Previous to joining Pulte, Reid served in security leadership roles for several top Fortune 100 companies (within a variety of industries, including healthcare, financial/banking, and telecommunications), facilitating enterprise security program start-ups and ongoing program management. RFudge@SecureITExperts.com
