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Derek
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Derek Atkins
CTO
SecureRF
Mr. Atkins, Chief Technology Officer, specializes in architecting, designing, developing, and deploying network and systems security applications. Mr. Atkins was formerly a senior member of the technical staff at Mocana Corporation, Senior Principal Software Engineer at Symantec (formally PGP Corporation), Senior Research Scientist at Telcordia Technologies (Bellcore), Chief Technology Officer at Arepa, Inc. (Into Networks) and a member of the technical staff at Sun Microsystems. Mr. Atkins also served as President of IHTFP Consulting, Inc., an Atlanta based consulting firm he founded in 2001, which provided Internet and computer system security services. Mr. Atkins serves on the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet standardization body. As a member of the IETF, he was instrumental in the design and standardization of several major Internet protocols, including the OpenPGP and Instant Messaging protocols. He currently serves as chairman of the Open Web Authorization (Oauth) Working Group, and serves on the IETF’s Security Directorate. Mr. Atkins formerly served as chairman of the now-closed Kerberized Internet Negotiation of Keys Working Group, the Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol Working Group, the OpenPGP working group, and as security guru on the IETF’s Domain Name System Directorate. Mr. Atkins holds several patents in the area of secure content delivery. Publications authored by Mr. Atkins include “The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage” in AsiaCrypt ’94, “Scaling the Web of Trust: Combining Kerberos and PGP to Provide Large Scale Authentication” published at Usenix 1995, and “Media Bank: Access and Access Control” published in 1995 by the MIT Media Lab. Mr. Atkins earned his Bachelor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and his Masters in Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Overcoming Embedded Security System Challenges: The Reality of Securing the IoT
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