Authors of "Mastering Web Services Security"
Bret Hartman
Bret Hartman is Chief Technology Officer of Quadrasis,
a business unit of Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc. Mr. Hartman
has over twenty years of experience in information security and secure
systems development. His expertise includes Web Services security, distributed
component security, policy development and management, and security modeling
and analysis. He is a nationally recognized expert on distributed systems
security, and he is a book author, regular speaker, and panelist on a
variety of secure distributed system topics. He has been a long-time participant
in Object Management Group (OMG) standards activities, and is a co-author
of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) Security specification
along with representatives from several major computer vendors. He is
a co-author "Enterprise Security with EJB and CORBA" (Wiley
2001).
Prior to his current position, Mr. Hartman was Vice President of e-Business
Security Solutions at Concept Five Technologies, Inc., where he provided
security architecture consulting to many enterprise clients in financial
services, telecommunications, manufacturing, and retail. Prior to Concept
Five, Mr. Hartman co-founded a venture for building security policy management
tools and providing distributed object security consulting services. Mr.
Hartman has defined security architectures for a number of commercial
clients, including JavaSoft (Sun Microsystems), Tandem (Compaq), Iona,
3Com, General Motors, British Telecom, Home Depot, Sprint, State Street
Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, Credit Suisse First Boston, Bank of America, and
Deutsche Bank. Mr. Hartman received a Bachelor of Science degree from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Science degree
from the University of Maryland.
Donald Flinn
Don Flinn is the Chief Security Architect with Quadrasis,
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc (HICAM). Prior that, he was
a security architect at IONA Technologies.
Prior to IONA Technologies, he was security architect at Concept Five
and previously at Hewlett Packard. Don has over 25 years experience designing
and developing distributed object systems, enterprise middleware integration,
and CORBA and Java based security systems. The systems included Object
Request Broker (ORB) implementations in C++ and Java, DCE implementations,
implementation of a CORBA Security Level 2 product in C++ and Java, as
well as an implementation of a Perimeter to Mid-tier and a COM to CORBA
bridge.
He was a chair of the Security Special Interest Group (SecSIG) at the
Object Management Group (OMG), chair of the
Common Secure Interoperability (CSIv2) Finalization Task Force and was
active in the security J2EE work in the Java Community Process, which
develops and revises Java technical specifications. He is presently an
active voting member of the OASIS committees for WS-Security, SAML and
XACML. Don is a co-author of “Enterprise
Security with EJB and CORBA.”
Don received a Bachelor of Science degree from Univ. of Notre Dame, a
Master of Science degree from So. Dakota Tech, an MBA from Northeastern
Univ. and was a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Konstantin Beznosov is a Security Architect with Quadrasis,
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc (HICAM), where he designs
and develops products for security integration of enterprise applications.
Before HICAM, Dr. Beznosov consulted large telecommunication and banking
companies on the architecture of security solutions for distributed enterprise
applications, as a Security Architect at Concept Five Technologies.
Prior to graduating from Florida International
University (FIU) in 2000 with a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Dr. Beznosov
was a Senior Research Associate with the FIU’s Center
for Advanced Distributed Systems Engineering (CADSE), conducting research
on engineering access control for distributed enterprise applications.
He also worked on distributed DBMS development at High
Performance Database Research Center at FIU, where he received a M.S.
in Computer Science in 1997. Dr. Beznosov’s prior work on applying
CORBA Security architecture to computerized medical records at Baptist
Health Systems of South Florida laid the foundation for the OMG
standard on Resource
Access Decision (RAD) Facility. He actively participated in standardization
of security-related OMGs specifications (CORBA
Security, RAD,
SDMM) from
1997 to 2001, and was a co-chair of the Security SIG.
Dr. Beznosov has served on program committees of SACMAT
and DOCSec.
Having published various research papers on security engineering, he is
a co-author of “Enterprise
Security with EJB and CORBA,” and a contributor to the “Handbook
of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering” by World
Scientific Publishing.
Shirley Kawamoto
Shirley Kawamoto is a Principal Security Architect with Quadrasis.
Ms. Kawamoto has twenty five years of experience in information systems
security, encryption, key management, advanced telecommunications, and
networking. She specializes multi-domain, multi-tiered security architectures,
authentication systems, and the application of cryptography. She has defined
security architectures for clients in the financial, telecommunications,
and government sector, including Sprint, Wells Fargo Bank, Credit Suisse
First Boston, Fleet Boston, and Verizon. She has also participated in
authentication and cryptography standards activities for ANSI and IEEE.
Ms. Kawamoto received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
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