Professional Summary: This expert witness has 38 years of research, engineering and management experience with security-related technologies, software engineering,and product development. He is an expert in computer security, providing consulting expertise for security analysis, research,development and evaluation, and expert witness services in computer software-and security-related litigation and patent matters. He is an adjunct professor and a member of the Center for the Advanced Study and Practice of Information Assurance (CASPIA) at a California University. His research interests include methods and tools for principled approaches to the compositional construction and certification of high-assurance, secure,distributed and IoT systems.
He is technical director, for The Open Group UK, of the European Commission's Distributed MILS (D-MILS) project, technical director for a new project, CITADEL, to develop dynamic and adaptive MILS systems, and a contributor to the EC ProSEco project (IoT for manufacturing), and the PHANTOM Project (MILS on heterogeneous computing platforms), is active in the leadership of The Open Group's Real-Time and Embedded Systems Forum,chairman of the MILS API Working Group, a delegate to the International Standards Organization's SC27 (Security Techniques) Working Group 3 (security evaluation), organizer of the first Common Criteria Forum Workshop, and eight-time organizer of the Layered Assurance Workshop (LAW). He currently participates in the Common Criteria User’s Forum, and has contributed to the Common Criteria technical communities developing the Operating System Protection Profile, the Mobile Device Protection Profile, and the Server Virtualization Protection Profile. He also developed the MILS Network System PP,and the MILS Platform PP. He serves as a member of the External Oversight Group for the CRASH-worthy Trustworthy Systems Research and Development (CTSRD) project (part of the DARPA CRASH Program) performed by Cambridge University and SRI International, and an observer of the DARPA Mission-Oriented Resilient Clouds Program. He was a contributor to a US Marine Corps trusted smart phone project and to MILS research projects at SRI International. He has been the consulting security expert for Lynx Software Technologies’ secure operating systems development,contributor to Sun's Trusted Solaris development and evaluation, and contributor and program manager of both the Kernelized Secure Operating System(KSOS) and Provably Secure Operating System (PSOS) projects. |