ISSI's Management

Dr. Lowell (Jim) Frazer, ISSI's founder, has spent over 50 years in offensive and defensive research and operations. He was a 2003 inductee into the NSA Hall of Honor and is 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 NATO, and the 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.

 

Ron Frazer, Ph.D., President

Ron has 20 years experience in cryptographic systems evaluation and implementation for the intelligence community and 17 years of broad experience in the design and planning of telecommunications and IS networks.

Judy Dye, Vice President

Judy formerly 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.

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.

Jess Fussell, D.Sc., Senior Scientist

Dr. Fussell has over 40 years of technical and management experience in the intelligence community. He directed the Communications Science Research Division at the National Security Agency, headed two advanced technology divisions at NSA, which applied new technology to a variety of communications problems, and led the branch which developed algorithms for narrowband secure voice terminals. He created and was the first Director of a DARPA-like organization for the Intelligence Community (the Advanced Research and Development Activity in Information Technology) that sponsored $50M of research in advanced computing, network communication and information processing.