Howard Israel, Corporate Security Officer, Fidessa Corp.
Howard Israel has held leadership positions in the IT security field for over 25 years and is currently the Corporate Security Officer for Fidessa corporation responsible for IT security, audit and physical security for North America. Howard started with the NSA in the DoD National Computer Security Center performing security evaluations of commercial operating systems for IBM, DEC and Sperry against the "Orange Book" and co-authoring parts of the Rainbow Series of security standards. He then worked at AT&T Bell Labs developing secure UNIX Systems and was co-creator of the first commercially available Intrusion Detection System. He worked on various security consulting projects, including co-developer of the Trusted Software Methodology for the US DoD Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Overseas experience included performing security consulting to the Taiwanese government for 5 months in Taipei, Taiwan. He then was in charge of security at AT&T WorldNet Service, one of the largest ISPs. At Lucent Technologies he was a Senior Security Consultant in charge of the Data Security Consulting practice, including bids & proposals, pre-sales, customer interface and delivery manager. At Avaya he was the Security Strategist in both the Services division and the corporate CTO office, where he coordinated security initiatives, including managing a company-wide 60+ person virtual security team. He has written several published papers in IT Security, including one of the first published papers on Computer Viruses. He holds a BS in Business & Computer Science from the University at Albany and an MS in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology.