Security Architect Information

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ROBERT WALSH

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OBJECTIVE SENIOR DIRECTORY SERVICES IAM ENGINEER

SKILLS & ABILITIES Information Architect, Data & AI division, Visa Information Security Architect, Cybersecurity, Visa, Foster City, CA As a security architect for the Data & AI division, I addressed security issues related Visa’s private cloud of transactions – the largest financial, private cloud in he world comprised of multiple Hadoop clusters.

• I helped to architect the identity and access management of this private cloud using multiple Active Directory domains.

• I help ensure compliance to Visa’s internal security and privacy standards as well as industry standards such as: Payment card industry security standards [PCI-DSS] and those of the Center for Internet security. I participate in audit reviews by internal and external auditors: FFIEC, SOX, PCI Data Security standards.

• I architected the provisioning system and central LDAP Directory for identity and access control of corporate users and applications deployed on 70,000 Unix servers and Kubernetes images. This resulted in multiple patent applications.

• Wrote the technical security standards for corporate user access to all systems and data by corporate staff as well as other technologies: SSH, credential policy.

• Co-authored the technical security standards for Hadoop and Hadoop services: yarn, Hive, etc..

• Conducted security architecture reviews of applications and services to be deployed into production.

Developer Experience:

• Developed .Net applications in Visual basic to query and report on contents of identity repositories: Active Directory, LDAP directories and IBM’s RACF.

• Developed a diagnostic tool in .Net to scan ports and assess certificates deployed to implement TLS for mutual authentication and server authentication.

• Wrote python scripts to search LDAP directories, Active Directory and to test SSL/TLS connections.

Training Experience:

Trained staff on how Active Directory domains govern access to Hadoop clusters. EXPERIENCE

AWARDS

3/17/2006 TO 1/21/2025: SENIOR SECURITY ARCHITECT, VISA, INC. MARCH, 1992 TO NOVEMBER 2005: SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. MENLO PARK, CA Global sales support for Solaris on Intel and other software products. Member of a team responsible for competitive analysis of Sun’s software products vis-a-vis Microsoft. Resulted in two issued patents (see below). Awarded 2005 Chairman’s award, 2005 for technical support to the EU trade commission in their antitrust case against Microsoft. This resulted in a 2 billion $ settlement from Microsoft to Sun Microsystems.

Reference: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/antitrust/eudecision EDUCATION &

CERTIFICATIONS

CISSP, 2015

ITIL v3 certification, 2012

Advanced Computer Security, 2010

Stanford Certificate Program

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Adjunct Professor, Computer Science, 1980 – 1985

University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Taught Graduate and undergraduate programs in Networking, operating systems, 2D and 3D graphics.

Taught a course on localization and internationalization of Windows applications. PATENTS 1. Patent #6868434 “System and method for testing server latencies using multiple concurrent users in a computer system”, 3/15/2005. Robert Walsh, Michael Shea, Sun Microsystems. Assigned to Oracle.

2. Patent #7143025: “Web Simulator”, 11/28/2006. Robert Walsh, Michael Shea, Sun Microsystems. Assigned to Oracle.

3. Patent #7533012: “Multi-user web simulator”, 5/12/2009. Robert Walsh, Michael Shea, Sun Microsystems. Assigned to Oracle.

4. Patent #8959613 B2: 2/17/2015.“System and method for managing access to a plurality of servers in an organization”.

5. US Patent #12088576 9/10/2024. “ System, method and computer program product for Managing computational cluster access to multiple domains”, REFERENCES

Available upon

request

Rhonda Cram, Chief Architect, Identity & Access Management, Visa Jim Gordon, Chief Architect, Data & AI Platform, Visa Domenic Fedronic, Senior VP, Identity & Access management, Cybersecurity, Visa, Inc.

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