Biographical sketches of authors
Larry Koved
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: koved@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Koved is a research staff member in the Network Security and Cryptography department and a Java security architect for IBM. His primary interests are the security of mobile code, component software, and object-oriented languages. He is a member of ACM's SIGSAC and SIGCHI and of the IEEE Computer Society.
Anthony Nadalin
Tivoli SecureWay Business Unit, 9442 Capital of Texas Highway North, Arboretum Plaza One, Suite 500, Austin, Texas 78759 (electronic mail: drsecure@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Nadalin is the lead architect for the IBM Java Security project. As senior architect, he is responsible for infrastructure design and development across IBM. He serves as the primary security liaison to Sun Microsystems' JavaSoft Division for Java security design and development collaboration.
Nataraj Nagaratnam
IBM Application & Integration Middleware Division, P.O. Box 12195, 3039 Cornwallis Drive, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2195 (electronic mail: natarajn@ us.ibm.com).
Dr. Nagaratnam is the technical lead for the IBM WebSphere security team. He received his Ph.D. degree from Syracuse University; his thesis addresses secure delegation in distributed object environments. He has authored and edited books on Java networking and JavaBeans and has published in numerous journals and conferences.
Marco Pistoia
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: pistoia@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Pistoia is an advisory Java security specialist in the Network Security and Cryptography department. He has written nine books and taught classes worldwide on all areas of Java, WebSphere, and e-business security. His latest book, Java 2 Network Security, was published by Prentice-Hall. Mr. Pistoia's interests are in mobile code security and object-oriented technology.
Theodore Shrader
IBM Software Group, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (electronic mail: tshrader@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Shrader was a feature lead on the IBM Java Security project and currently is the Editor-in-Chief of the IBM DeveloperToolbox magazine. He has written numerous patents and technical articles dealing with Internet and Java development, distributed computing, object-oriented design, database architecture, and Web design. He also is a coauthor of an operating systems programming guide published by John Wiley & Sons and the lead author of the Java and Internet Security book published by iUniverse and cited in this paper.
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