Introduction

I'm Bob Pinheiro, and I'm representing the Financial Services 
Technology Consortium at the WSC meeting in San Jose on Jan. 30-31, 
2007.  I am also working with FSTC on the "Authenticating the 
Financial Institution to the Consumer" project, and was previously 
involved with the "Better Mutual Authentication" project.  My primary 
security-related interests center around authentication, especially 
authentication technologies and procedures appropriate for the 
mass-market (i.e., consumer authentication).  This would involve 
authentication for online financial services, as well as better 
identity authentication for preventing other identity-related 
fraud.  I'm therefore especially interested in ways that will allow 
technically unsophisticated users to confidently rely on various web 
services.   In the past I have worked with the Electronic 
Authentication Partnership in helping to devise a Trust Framework for 
the interoperability of disparate authentication systems and 
technologies.  I am also working with several groups, including 
Liberty Alliance and ANSI, on looking into ways that stronger 
authentication can be applied to the identity theft problem.

In a previous life, I was a systems engineer and researcher in the 
telecommunications industry, working for Bell Laboratories and Bell 
Communications Research (which became Telcordia Technologies) on 
projects involving intelligent networks, Integrated Services Digital 
Networks, software agents, and internet-related applications such as 
VoIP and e-commerce.

Received on Monday, 29 January 2007 18:58:46 UTC