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Press Release: New Technical Advisory Board Members
PGP CORPORATION ANNOUNCES ADDITIONS TO TECHNICAL ADVISORY
BOARD
Three experts join prominent security company's esteemed
group of advisors
Palo Alto, CA/10 November, 2003 – PGP Corporation announced today that three icons of the information security field have joined its Technical Advisory Board, bringing the group's membership to a total of seven. The board, formed in August 2002, provides expertise and guidance to PGP executives and engineering teams in the areas of information security, encryption, networking, and future technologies. The new members are:
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Derek Atkins, President, IHTFP Consulting Inc.
An active member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Mr. Atkins was instrumental in the design and standardization of several major Internet protocols, including OpenPGP and IMPP (Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol). Directly before founding IHTFP, which specializes in Internet and systems security practices, he was a senior scientist at Telcordia Technologies. He was also a co-founder and chief technology officer at Arepa Inc. (now Into Networks). Mr. Atkins was also involved in the development of early versions of PGP technologies. Active in the Internet and security communities since 1989, Mr. Atkins specializes in architecting, designing, developing, and deploying network and systems security applications. He received both his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and his M.S. in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT.
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Dr. Steve Babbage, Security Technologies Manager, Vodafone
Group Research & Development
Dr. Babbage is the chief cryptologist for Vodafone Group, one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications network companies. His team in Vodafone Group R&D is influential in security standardization for mobile telephony (GSM, 3GPP, OMA, and others). Dr Babbage chairs ETSI SAGE, the Security Algorithms Group of Experts that designs cryptographic algorithms for mobile and other telecommunications standards. He has an M.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Dr. Norman Koo, Executive Director, Chief Technology Office,
AOL Time Warner
Dr. Koo is responsible for the emerging technologies for large-scale data center IT infrastructure and associated consumer and home networking devices. Previously, he held a variety of senior management positions at Sun Microsystems Inc. and was instrumental in growing the company's Asia-Pacific revenues to more than $1 billion. He also was the founder and CEO for OpenTV, a Sun-Thomson joint venture, leading the company public with a $3 billion-plus market capitalization. Dr. Koo received an MBA from the University of Santa Clara, an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering/Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University, and a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Wisconsin.
"The new members bring great technical insight, system knowledge, and enterprise security expertise to our Technical Advisory Board," said Jon Callas, CTO and CSO of PGP Corporation. "Their collective wisdom will be invaluable as we continue to build next-generation architectures and products."
These esteemed individuals join original board members Carl Amdahl, Technology Partner, DCM-Doll Capital Management; Dr. Crispin Cowan, Chief Scientist, Immunix; Bruce Schneier, Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane Internet Security Inc.; and Phil Zimmermann, founder of the original PGP Inc.
About PGP Corporation
The recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and
information storage, PGP Corporation develops, markets, and
supports products used by a broad installed base of enterprises,
businesses, governments, individuals, and cryptography experts to
secure proprietary and confidential information.
During the past ten years, PGP® technology has built a global reputation for open and trusted security products. The PGP Corporation family of products includes PGP Universal-an automatic, self-managing, network-based solution for enterprises-as well as desktop, mobile, and SDK solutions. Venture funding is provided by DCM-Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com or +1 650 319 9000.
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