Brief Biography of Tim Bass

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Tim Bass, CISSP, is founder and CTO of SilkRoad. He is currently consulting on emerging commercial applications of complex event processing (CEP) and security event management (SEM). He has provided independent senior subject matter expertise to both industry and government for over 20 years, including TIBCO Software, Chase Manhattan Bank, the Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC), the "Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication" (SWIFT) , the United States Air Force (USAF), the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD/NII), and other global multi-national organizations. Mr. Bass graduated B.S.E., Tulane University, School of Engineering, 1987 Magna Cum Laude, Electrical Engineering. His work on Internet security and cyberattack countermeasures has been featured in Popular Science Magazine and Federal Computer Week. He is internationally recognized as a thought leader in next-generation intrusion and distributed multi-sensor data fusion architecture, in part, based on his paper, Intrusion Detection Systems & Multisensor Data Fusion, Communications of the ACM, pp. 99-105, Vol. 43, No. 4, April 2000.

How long have you been in business?

We have been in business since 1991.

What is your primary business?

Independent consulting, software, analysis, SEM, CEP and trusted advisory services.