ISSI's Management

Dr. Lowell (Jim) Frazer, ISSI's CEO, has spent 50 years in offensive and defensive research and operations. He was a 2003 inductee into the NSA Hall of Honor and a Distinguished Member of the Cryptomath Institute. Dr. Frazer began his cryptologic experience in June 1951at the Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA), which later became the National Security Agency (NSA). His first three years of cryptanalysis were in SIGINT and his next thirty years were in INFOSEC. For most of the later part of his NSA career, he headed NSA's Information Systems Security Standards and Evaluation effort. 

In addition to being responsible for the security assessment of all US Government communications systems, his office also was responsible for INFOSEC evaluation and standards for SECAN, the Security Agency for NATO, and standards for U. S. Nuclear command and control communications systems. When he retired from NSA in 1985, he was overwhelmed with so many requests for INFOSEC consulting that he formed ISSI, an elite group of former NSA scientists, mathematicians and engineers.

Ed Donahue, Ph.D., Senior Scientist

Ed, a Ph.D. mathematician, has over twenty years experience in Information Security, particularly cryptanalysis and cryptography. He has experience with Common Criteria Protection Profiles, as well as integrating, testing and evaluating Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs). His twenty years of experience with the National Security Agency included functioning as Chief Cryptographer, and several tours as a cryptanalyst culminating in leading about a third of NSA’s cryptanalytic effort. He also held positions managing software and engineering development and has extensive personal experience in s/w development.

 

Ron Frazer, Ph.D., President

Ron has 18 years experience in cryptographic systems evaluation for the intelligence community and 17 years of broad experience in the design and planning of telecommunications and IS networks.

John Crowley, CISSP, Vice President

A CISSP certified professional, John has thirty-six years of experience with systems analysis and Information Assurance security for mainframe, standalone, and networked architectures and designs. Sixteen years of systems analysis/programming and integration for systems including cryptographic services and system security services.  John is an expert in the DCID 6/3 security requirements for federal agencies and has authored several system security plans for complex government systems.

Judy Dye, Vice President

Judy formally managed various SIGINT Support Programs at NSA. She has over 30 years experience in the Intelligence Community as an information technology manager, a computer scientist and cryptanalyst. She has extensive experience in change management within the IT environment and a solid background in customer relations and human relations.