American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

  • X9F – Committee on Information Security Standards for the Financial Services Industry – Past Vice Chairperson
  • X9F1 – Cryptographic Tools – participant
  • X9F4 – Cybersecurity & Cryptographic Protocols Solutions – Vice Chairperson
  • X9F5 – Certificate Policies & Practices – participant

Bank Administration Institute

Data Security Committee Chairperson 1984 – 1986

Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)

Founder and Founding President 1982 – 1985

International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2

  • Co-Founder
  • North America Advisory Board – past member
  • CBK Review Committee – past member

ISSA Education and Research Foundation

Chairperson of the Board

L.A. County Computer Crime Task Force

Legislative Advisor and Expert Witness – 1985 -1987

National Academy of Sciences

  • Computer Science &Telecommunications Board
  • Systems Security Study Committee.
  • Co-author of “Computers at Risk: Safe Computing in The Information Age”
    (National Academy Press, 1991)

National Computer System Security & Privacy Advisory Board

Represented the banking industry as one of only four private sector members 1992 – 1996

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

IT Lab Assessment Board 1992 – 1998

U. S. Council for International Business

E-Commerce Committee – past advisor