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The following individuals volunteer their time to provide direction to the group.
They have a broad range of experience in the industry which they bring to the
group's operations, and are listed here alphabetically by last name.

 

 

 

Edward Adams is the CEO of Security Innovation, where he leverages his technical and business skills, as well as his pervasive industry experience, to direct world-renowned application security experts and deliver world-class professional services to many of the most recognizable companies in the world including Microsoft, IBM, Visa, ING, Symantec, SAP and HP.  He is the founder and business owner of the Application Security Industry Consortium, Inc. (AppSIC), an association of industry technologists and leaders establishing and defining cross-industry application security guidance and metrics, and has keynoted and presented to thousands at numerous seminars, software industry conferences, and private companies.  He has contributed written and oral commentary for media outlets such as SC Magazine, Wall Street Journal, CSO Magazine, CIO Update, and New England Cable News. He has also written several whitepapers on Software Quality & Security, including "Security by Design," "Why is Application Security so Elusive?," "Achieving Quality by Design" and "The Business Argument for Investing in Test Automation."
 

 

Paul Bowen is a project manager for FAS and for the Department of Defense and other governmental agencies. He is trained in acquisition from both Defense Acquisition University and the Federal Acquisition Institute. His certifications include PMP, CISSP, MCSE, CTE and others.

Paul has taught certification and college classes since 1989 at Quincy College, Clark University, Andover College, Northeastern University, University of Southern Maine, Boston University and NAISG. Paul founded and created the site www.tspcenter.com and the fantasytsp game which he sold in November of 2007. He and his family have sponsored the Premananda Orphanage Centre since 2000 and have raised close to twenty thousand dollars for the orphanage which is run by Father Chopparapu Jojaiah.
 
 

 

Bill Brenner is a senior editor for CSO Magazine and CSO Online, part of CXO/IDG. He reports on, writes and edits content exclusively focused on the latest threats to IT security -- from software vulnerabilities to worm attacks and information theft -- and has several years of experience as a reporter and editor, starting as a writer for Community Newspaper Company. He was most recently senior news writer for TechTarget's Security Media Group, writing content for SearchSecurity.com and Information Security Magazine, and he spent more than four years as an assignment editor at The Eagle-Tribune, the daily newspaper of Massachusetts' Merrimack Valley region and southern New Hampshire. His interest in IT security is based on the growing dependence that businesses and organizations have on their computer systems, and a desire to provide them with information that can help bolster security. Bill lives in Haverhill, MA, with his wife and two sons.
 

 

Jack Daniel is a blogger, a support engineer at Astaro, a network security consultant and a CISSP.  Jack is a strong proponent of user groups and knowledge sharing, and has given presentations on a variety of topics at NAISG, the Southern New England Network and the Windows Boston user group meetings.  When not trying to beat computer systems into shape, Jack forges hot iron as an amateur blacksmith and serves as a state director for the New England Blacksmiths Association.

 

 

 

Gary Miliefsky is the founder and CTO of NetClarity, a CISSP and founding member of the US Department of Homeland Security. A dynamic speaker, inventor, entrepreneur and computer scientist, he holds six e-commerce patents and has one network security patent published with four others pending. He has been written about twice in Fortune magazine, and has been seen and heard in CIO Magazine, Red Herring, Information Week, USA Today, the Washington Post, Washington Times, the New York Post, ZDNet, PCWeek and PCWeek Radio, Into Tomorrow radio talk show, the Boston Business Journal, and Mass High Tech.
 

 

Tom Sullivan has worked with Microsoft New England since 1994 and has been in the software industry for >28 years.  At Microsoft, he has designed security infrastructure, addressed issues such as secure systems management in high-security DMZ environments, identity management, authorization systems and much more.  His upcoming focus is information rights management.

 

 

 
   

 

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