Mr. Arshad Noor

Arshad Noor is the Founder & CEO of StrongAuth, Inc., a Cupertino, California, (USA) based company that specializes in Identity Management and Compliance Workflow Management products & services.

He has been working in the IT industry for nearly 20 years at companies such as Citibank, BASF Corporation, New York Life Insurance, Port Authority of NY & NJ and Sun Microsystems. Arshad has been building PKI's for the last six (6) years for some of the world's smallest and largest companies. Amongst them, he was responsible for the implementation of Sun Microsystems' PKI for their 45,000+ employees, the architecture of Visa's PKI to support 50,000+ partners, and most recently for Pfizer's PKI to support 120,000+ employees. StrongAuth continues to work for new clients in other markets ranging from a 5,000 employee retail operation, to a 500,000+ gaming operation.

A prolific writer and speaker, he has spoken at many Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) gatherings, the Information Security Auditor's Association, PC Expo, IT Expo and other conferences in the past. His writings have been published in UNIX World, UNIX Review and the ISSA Journal (most recently on Building Successful PKI's – Sept 2004). A chapter on Access Control is expected to be published in a book next year, that recommends security strategies for lawfirms; the book is being published by the American Bar Association.

As Chairperson of the Application Guidelines Subcommittee at the OASIS (PKI Technical Committee), he is particularly interested in making public-key cryptography easy to use for IT developers towards protecting individual transactions – a project known as 'Transaction PKI'. The subcommittee is looking at existing stndards (XMLSignatures, XMLEncryption, S/MIME, TLS, etc.) to determine the optimal mechanism towards making it easy for developers of applications to be able to digitally sign and encrypt individual transactions. More information on the project can be found at

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=pki-guidelines . Arshad can be reached at arshad.noor@strongauth.com.