Bob
Pinheiro is an independent consultant whose work has focused on
identity authentication, information security, and identity management
issues for ensuring greater protection of personal information,
prevention of fraudulent access to online financial accounts and other
electronic resources, and prevention of identity theft. He has published original research
on potential applications of stronger authentication methods for
identity theft prevention. He also has experience with Internet Protocol (IP)-based
networks and technologies, Voice over IP (VoIP), Advanced Intelligent
Networks,
mobile software agents for network management applications, and secure
electronic
commerce.
Bob is a member of Liberty Alliance and its Identity Assurance Expert Group, and is also chairman of the Liberty Alliance Identity Theft Prevention Special Interest Group. He has worked with the Electronic Authentication Partnership, where he was part of a team that drafted EAP's Trust Framework for enabling interoperability among public and private authentication systems that later became the basis for Liberty's Identity Assurance Framework. He has consulted with the Financial Services Technology Consortium on several projects, including a Better Mutual Authentication project that addressed the problem of stronger authentication methodologies for the financial services industry, and another project focused on authentication of a financial institution's website and emails to their customers. He is an active Panel Participant on the ANSI Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management Standards Panel (IDSP), which seeks to develop guidance for the establishment of industry best-practices for identity theft prevention, and helped write the panel's Final Report.
Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Bob worked for over 20 years in the telecommunications industry, where he was a research scientist and systems engineer at Bell Laboratories and Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bell Communications Research). While at Telcordia, his work spanned numerous aspects of telecommunications, including Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN), expert systems applications in telecommunications, Advance Intelligent Networks, feature interaction management, and electronic commerce. He consulted with both U.S. and international clients on the convergence of the public switched telephone network and IP networks for Voice over IP applications, and also conducted research on potential uses of software agent technologies for network management applications.
Prior to working in the telecommunications field, Bob was a statistician in the healthcare industry.
Bob earned the SANS GIAC Security Essentials certification (GSEC). He received a BS in Chemistry from the State University of New York at Albany, an MS in Statistics from Rutgers University, and an MS in Applied Mathematics from Polytechnic Institute of New York (now Polytechnic University).
Bob is a member of Liberty Alliance and its Identity Assurance Expert Group, and is also chairman of the Liberty Alliance Identity Theft Prevention Special Interest Group. He has worked with the Electronic Authentication Partnership, where he was part of a team that drafted EAP's Trust Framework for enabling interoperability among public and private authentication systems that later became the basis for Liberty's Identity Assurance Framework. He has consulted with the Financial Services Technology Consortium on several projects, including a Better Mutual Authentication project that addressed the problem of stronger authentication methodologies for the financial services industry, and another project focused on authentication of a financial institution's website and emails to their customers. He is an active Panel Participant on the ANSI Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management Standards Panel (IDSP), which seeks to develop guidance for the establishment of industry best-practices for identity theft prevention, and helped write the panel's Final Report.
Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Bob worked for over 20 years in the telecommunications industry, where he was a research scientist and systems engineer at Bell Laboratories and Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bell Communications Research). While at Telcordia, his work spanned numerous aspects of telecommunications, including Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN), expert systems applications in telecommunications, Advance Intelligent Networks, feature interaction management, and electronic commerce. He consulted with both U.S. and international clients on the convergence of the public switched telephone network and IP networks for Voice over IP applications, and also conducted research on potential uses of software agent technologies for network management applications.
Prior to working in the telecommunications field, Bob was a statistician in the healthcare industry.
Bob earned the SANS GIAC Security Essentials certification (GSEC). He received a BS in Chemistry from the State University of New York at Albany, an MS in Statistics from Rutgers University, and an MS in Applied Mathematics from Polytechnic Institute of New York (now Polytechnic University).