Carl F. Allen

Carl F. Allen, President of InfoCore, Inc., has more than 20 years experience in the Information Technology (IT) industry and has been associated with securing and auditing LANS, Intranets and the Internet during the last 12 years. A much in-demand speaker on IT enterprise security and audit topics, Mr. Allen associates with many professional organizations and is a member of the IIA and ISACA. He holds an MBA from the University of Denver and Bachelor's degrees in both Mathematics and Applied Physics from Weber State University.

Beginning his career in the oil and banking industries, he quickly became involved in network application consulting with Wang. He then spent 5 years at Novell, first as a senior consultant in Novell Consulting Services managing and directing security consulting projects for strategic partners and key customers, then as Senior Security Product Manager and Manager of the Security Component Business Team. While at Novell he launched its Global Network Security Architecture and advised Utah's Governor's Office in the formation of its Digital Signature Act.

As a principal consultant at InfoCore since 1995, he has managed and been involved in more than 45 security and audit consulting projects, has been a keynote or specialized topic speaker at more than 30 US and International IT security and audit conferences, and has worked with over 3000 executives in industry security and audit briefings designed and delivered by InfoCore. Areas of focus and industry expertise include: enterprise security architectures for IT environments; directory services security including X.500, Novell Directory Services (NDS), Active Directory and LDAP; public key infrastructure and certificate authorities; secure electronic communications infrastructure component integration; enterprise e-mail and messaging security architectures; encryption and digital certificates solutions; e-commerce audit and security models; audit and security of NetWare and NDS; Windows NT and Windows 2000 security and audit integration.

Under the direction of Mr. Allen, InfoCore provides consulting services, advisory consulting, training consulting and product solutions to the IT industry. Additionally, InfoCore has published articles for various industry publications and has provided input to industry representatives of the NIST CRADA, Federal PKI Technical Working Group, Key Recovery Alliance, Key Management Infrastructure, GITS committee, the Black Forest Security Group and the WebSec 2001 Special User Group Initiative.

As a practicing consultant at InfoCore, Carl is currently working with select domestic and international organizations about the role of public key and digital security technologies and their use in electronic banking, insurance, healthcare, energy, and other technology and e-business environments. In addition, he is participating in US and International IT industry efforts with regards to security, audit and control for electronic information and technology in traditional business and e-business environments.