About TSC Wireless
Company Leadership
Company
Mark S. Kadrich
President & CEO
Mark Kadrich is the CEO and Chief Evangelist at The Security Consortium. For the past 20 years, he has worked in the security community, building knowledge, and contributing solutions. His strengths are in systems level design, policy generation, end point security, and risk management.
Kadrich is a CISSP, holds a BS Management Information Systems, University of Phoenix and degrees in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering, Memphis, 1979. He is a contributing author in publications such as TCP Unleashed (Sams ISBN-13: 978-0672316906), ISSA Journal, Publish Magazine, Planet IT, RSA, CSI, and The Black Hat Briefings. His own book End Point Security (ISBN 0-321-43695-4 Addison Wesley) was published in 2007. Mark Kadrich is a well-known speaker and evangelist on network security matters at technical conference and events.
Andy Cottrell
Chief Operating Officer
Andy has over 21 years of experience in development, management and product strategy. As the CTO at TriCipher, a vendor of strong authentication credentials and the systems that use them, he led product development and worked with large financial services, healthcare and pharmaceutical companies working on access security, identity management and digital signing projects. At Phoenix Technologies, where he was Senior Director for Security Products, he was responsible for all security products and infrastructure, defining the architecture and leading the development efforts. He has participated in the efforts of several industry standards groups including the Trusted Computing Group.
Before joining Phoenix Technologies, Andy was the Head of the Engineering Department at Uxbridge College, England. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Birmingham University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Information Engineering from City University (London), both in the UK.
Steven Hessel, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist
Dr. Hessel brings strengths in radio frequency communications, computer networking and system performance to The Security Consortium's wireless and network security efforts. He has over 20 years experience in research and development in such diverse fields as mixed signal systems, R.F. instrumentation, microwave integrated circuits, and multi-processor and networked system performance.
He has developed innovative field-portable instrumentation that measures wireless signals with extreme precision which allows TSC to design secure wireless networks with previously unattainable reliability. TSC will immediately integrate these new techniques into their design and validation methodologies.
While at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Dr. Hessel developed and patented several protocols contributing to high-speed network communications including a protocol for encoding data that was used in Agilent's G-link products, the Serial HIPPI standard and the IEEE 802.11 standard. Much of today’s fiber-optic communication uses his work.
As a member of Hewlett-Packard's System Performance Laboratory where he specialized in multi-processor performance, Dr. Hessel initiated a large main-memory project that enabled Hewlett-Packard's entry into the data mining market.
Dr. Hessel holds a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree with a Radio Frequency Communication emphasis, both in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University. He also holds a Doctorate from Stanford University, in electrical engineering specializing in Data Communication Networking.
Robert Lupo
Wireless Specialist
Rob is the resident Wireless Specialist for TSC Wireless. Prior to TSC, as an independent contractor Rob provided security QA, Pen Testing, and testing evaluation services for various vendors, focusing on malware detection and prevention. Included in his large list of certifications are CISSP, CEH, and ELSA. Rob is also a nationwide instructor at universities, and security conferences like DEFCON, H2k, InterZone to name just a few.
Rob has led wireless audits for Fortune 500 corporations, hospitals, as well as media and travel services companies. Rob was also a member of the group that invented Wardriving and continues to keep his knowledge and training up to date with coursework from The SAN Institute among others. In his limited spare time, Rob is currently writing a multi-day course on wireless security for Security Opus.