About Us
Bob
Pinheiro is an independent consultant and researcher whose work focuses
on identity assurance and authentication for prevention
of identity theft and other forms of online identity-related fraud. He works with the Kantara Initiative,
an industry consortium dedicated to ensuring secure,
privacy-protecting, identity-based online transactions, and
is Chair of Kantara's Consumer Identity Work Group. Bob was also Chair of the Liberty Alliance Identity
Theft Prevention Special Interest Group.
He is a member of the Information Card Foundation, which is
dedicated to putting forward the paradigm of Information Cards, a new
approach to online identity assurance that is becoming increasingly important in consumer applications.
Bob 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 Phase I Final Report. He was also an active contributor to IDSP's Phase II Workshop Report on Identity Verification.
Bob has previously 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 Kantara's Identity Assurance Framework. He has also worked with the Financial Services Technology Consortium on identity-related projects for the financial services industry, including better mutual authentication for access to online financial services, and methods to enable consumers to more easily recognize legitimate banking websites.
Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Bob worked for over 20 years in the telecommunications industry, where he was a Member of Technical Staff, systems engineer, and research scientist at Bell Laboratories, Bell Communications Research, and Telcordia Technologies, respectively. During this time, his work spanned numerous areas of telecommunications, including electronic multiplexing systems in the telco "loop plant", Internet Protocol (IP)-based networks and technologies, Voice over IP (VoIP), Advanced Intelligent Networks, mobile software agents for network management applications, expert systems in telecommunications, secure electronic commerce, Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN), and feature interaction management. He consulted with both U.S. and international clients on the convergence of the public switched telephone network and IP networks for VoIP 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 Institute of New York University).
Bob 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 Phase I Final Report. He was also an active contributor to IDSP's Phase II Workshop Report on Identity Verification.
Bob has previously 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 Kantara's Identity Assurance Framework. He has also worked with the Financial Services Technology Consortium on identity-related projects for the financial services industry, including better mutual authentication for access to online financial services, and methods to enable consumers to more easily recognize legitimate banking websites.
Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Bob worked for over 20 years in the telecommunications industry, where he was a Member of Technical Staff, systems engineer, and research scientist at Bell Laboratories, Bell Communications Research, and Telcordia Technologies, respectively. During this time, his work spanned numerous areas of telecommunications, including electronic multiplexing systems in the telco "loop plant", Internet Protocol (IP)-based networks and technologies, Voice over IP (VoIP), Advanced Intelligent Networks, mobile software agents for network management applications, expert systems in telecommunications, secure electronic commerce, Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN), and feature interaction management. He consulted with both U.S. and international clients on the convergence of the public switched telephone network and IP networks for VoIP 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 Institute of New York University).