Richard E. Mackey
ISACA/CISM, Vice President of Consulting, SystemsExperts
Richard E. "Dick" Mackey is regarded as one of the industry's foremost authorities on distributed computing infrastructure and security. He has advised leading Wall Street firms on overall security architecture, virtual private networks, enterprise wide authentication, and intrusion detection and analysis. He also has unmatched expertise in the Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing Environment. Prior to joining the consultancy SystemExperts, he was the director of collaborative development for The Open Group (the merger of the Open Software Foundation and X/Open), where he was responsible for the integration of Microsoft's ActiveX Core with DCE and DCE Release 1.2. Mackey has been a frequent speaker at major conferences such as Giga, USENIX, Uniforum and Interop. Mackey has a B.S. and M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.