Term Projects and Mini-conference Jury

Dave Tyson , MBA, CPP, CISSP

Dave Tyson is Manager of Information Technology Security for the City of Vancouver and has been working in the IT and Physical Security Industry for 22 Years. His focus has been on security management & training, audits, risk analysis, security architectures and administration, business and management consulting. Mr. Tyson has Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA) specializing in Digital Technology Management. He is a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and is Board Certified in Security Management, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Dave is also a member of the Professional Certification Board of ASIS International.

As a security consultant with IBM Global Services, Dave provided security consulting advice to clients in 14 countries in North America and Europe. Dave participated in the 1999 International security delegation to Russia. Dave is a security generalist with concentrations in Executive Protection, Guard Force Operations, Security Policy, Strategic Planning, and IT Security Management.

Konstantin Beznosov, Assistant Professor, ECE UBC

Konstantin Beznosov is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He joined UBC in August 2003 after working as a Security Architect at Quadrasis, Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc (HICAM), where he designed and developed 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 "Mastering Web Services Security" by Wiley Computer Publishing, and a contributor to the "Handbook of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering" by World Scientific Publishing.