Partner Bio:

Diana Kelley, Partner        

Diana Kelley founded SecurityCurve in April of 2003. She has extensive experience creating secure network architectures and business solutions for large corporations and delivering strategic, competitive knowledge to security software vendors.

Prior to returning to SecurityCurve in January 2008, she was Vice President and Service Director for the Security and Risk Management Strategies (SRMS) service at Burton Group. Diana was the Executive Security Advisor for CA’s eTrust Business Unit. At CA she was responsible for advising customers on strategic security solutions and helped guide CA's security business.

She served as the Vice President of Security Technology for Safe3W, Inc (acquired by iPass), a provider of strong, two factor authentication. Representing Safe3W she was actively involved in the Technical Group for NACHA's Project Action. And she was a security industry Analyst with Baroudi Bloor, a top-tier analyst firm where she delivered strategic advice to, among others, IBM and Psionic (acquired by Cisco.)

Diana was the General Manager of a development group at Symantec Corp and the media spokesperson for the company on the 2000 "Proactive Security Tour". She was the Vice President of Corporate Development for LockStar and helped the company succeed in being named to the Red Herring "Top 50 Companies in the Digital Universe".

At The Hurwitz Group, Diana was the Senior Security Analyst and provided executive strategy advice to Entrust and other clients. She served as a Manager in KPMG's Financial Services Consulting practice, where her clients included Bank of America, General Electric, Merrill Lynch, MetLife and The Travelers. At Dataware Technologies she was the Manager Corporate Systems Administration and was responsible for over 350 users, 9 Internationally distributed sites, and all aspects of Lotus Notes, Novell, Unix, MS Exchange server, firewall and security administration.

She has experience in managing penetration testing, conducting security audits and has been certified on a number of security products including the original TIS Gauntlet, IBM RACF Security Administration and HP Virtual Vault.

Diana speaks frequently at major conferences, such as RSA, WiFi Planet, BlackHat, InfoSec World, NetWorld/InterOp, The Internet Security Conference, and ComDex. She served on the advisory board of the Executive Women's Forum and as Conference Chair for the Mobile and Wireless Security conference for 2003, 2004, and 2005. She also MISTI Chaired the Identity Management Conferences in 2005 and 2006 and the Virtualization Summit in 200. Diana has been quoted in publications such as Information Security Magazine and The Wall Street Journal as a security expert. She has authored numerous White Papers and research documents, wrote the chapter on "PKI and Directories" for the book PKI: A Wiley Tech Brief and contributed articles to ComputerWorld, SC Magazine, CNET, The Journal of Network and System Management, Security Focus inFocus, Security Products Magazine, and was interviewed by WNBC on the topic of Internet security.