Ed Reed is Novell's Security Tzar, responsible for leading security product strategy and direction across the company. A part of Novell's Office of the Chief Technology Office, Ed works with architects and business planners to fashion Novell's enterprise-oriented identity-based computing efforts to meet customers rapidly evolving needs. During his time at Novell, Ed has led both Product Management and Architecture teams in the areas of Directory and Security products. A graduate of Purdue University (BS), and Rochester Institute of Technology (MSCS), Ed is a frequently requested speaker at industry, technology and analyst briefings and conferences. His standards activities have included work with the IETF (LDAP, LDUP), DMTF, and OASIS. --------------------------------------- Al Potter is an Information Security veteran who has been a senior member of the technical staff at ICSA Labs since 1997. After spending almost three years deeply involved in the IEEE 802.11i task group, Al now manages ICSA Labs Premier Services testing labs, delivering customized testing, evaluation and certifications services. His prior roles have included hands-on testing of commercial firewall products and management of the Network Security Labs (including the firewall, IPSec, cryptography and IDS testing programs). Prior to ICSA, Al spent three years with SAIC, providing Unix system administration services to US Government customers. Before joining SAIC, Al served nine years as an Army Artillery Officer, with extensive experience in tactical automation, nuclear surety and an overseas tour as a Battery Commander and Liaison Officer to the German 12th Panzer Division. He is currently a Major in the retired reserve. Mr. Potter holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Davidson College and completed more than three additional years of professional military education. ------------------------------------------------- *Crispin Cowan, Ph.D., CTO and Co-Founder *Dr. Cowan leads Immunix technologies research and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) projects for Immunix. Dr. Cowan is an internationally recognized expert in both host and network intrusion and currently holds a part-time research professor position with the Oregon Graduate Institute, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Cowan has over fifteen years experience in UNIX/Linux OS platform and software technology. Dr. Cowan developed Immunix\231, a host security/survivability technology project for DARPA. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario and a Masters of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.