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OpenPMF 2.0 Model Driven Security Management

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ObjectSecurity is truly a 21st century knowledge worker business. At the centre is a small core team of experts who are highly effective "smart workers", using all technologies and processes available today to be highly mobile, flexible, and responsive. The core team coordinates the smooth integration with our portfolio of technical "nearshoring" suppliers in Czech Republic and with partners in the US and Europe.

Our team has first-class expertise and many years of experience gained from industrial projects and large-scale industrial R&D work. We combine in-depth information technical expertise with extensive industry experience in air traffic control, airports, transportation, telecommunications, banking, defense, and business-to-business applications.

ObjectSecurity is fully employee-owned, which means our team is motivated to provide higher creativity and initiative along with better performance for customers, and higher levels of customer satisfaction.

Because of its unique setup, ObjectSecurity combines the dynamic innovation of a Silicon Valley hi-tech startup, University of Cambridge spin-out ideas, reputed quality engineering associated with "Made in Germany", and the benefits of nearshoring in Czech Republic.

ObjectSecurity core team includes -

	Dr. Ulrich Lang (CEO, co-founder) received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory (Security Group) on conceptual aspects of middleware security in 2003 (sponsored by the UK Defence and Evaluation Research Agency (DERA), after having completed a Master's Degree (M. Sc.) in Information Security with distinction from Royal Holloway College (University of London) in 1997. On the management side, he has recently completed a Business Marketing Strategy course at the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University). Prior to his M. Sc. he studied computer science & management at the University of Munich and at Royal Holloway College (University of London). He has served in the German federal civil defence (technical and logistical relief) for several years. He has also previously worked as a proposal evaluator for public-funded R&D projects and as an independent information security consultant on various CORBA based banking projects. Ulrich Lang is the lead author on a book written with Rudolf Schreiner on “Developing Secure Distributed Systems with CORBA”, and published various articles in journals and many publications at international conferences and workshops. In addition to his strategic managerial activities, Ulrich Lang's current interests are organisational information security, security policy development, and security complexity reduction. Ulrich runs the Silicon Valley office.
	Rudolf Schreiner (CTO, co-founder) received his Master's (Dipl-Phys.) in physics from University of Munich in 1993. After graduation he worked as an independent software engineer and consultant on various computer security projects in banking, manufacturing and telecommunications. Rudolf Schreiner is the principal architect behind MICOSec Secure CORBA and the ObjectWall IIOP firewall. He has served in the German federal civil defence (technical and logistical relief) for several years. His main interest is the modelling and development of mission critical and secure applications. Rudolf Schreiner is currently the chief architect and coordinator for our OpenPMF policy management framework. Amongst other topics, he is also involved in the development of secure distributed systems in the air traffic management domain. Rudolf runs the European office.
	Karel Gardas (Chief Software Engineer) studied Information Technologies with focus on object-oriented distributed systems at Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, and received his Master's Degree (M. Sc.) in 2000. From 1999 to the end of 2001 he worked for NetBeans, Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc as a senior software engineer. Since 2002 he works as the Chief Software Engineer for ObjectSecurity. He is responsible for the development of OpenPMF, ObjectWall, and MICO CORBA. He is the official maintainer of the MICO Open Source project and main contributor to our MICO technical support contracts.