Security/Privacy Team

Dave Hemsath joined IBM in 1979 after receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He has held variety of technical and management positions in IBM. He's spent the past 13+ years in information security and privacy development, design, architecture, strategy and standards. He's currently assigned to IBM Software Group's Public Sector Solutions team where he serves as a security and privacy resource for all of the industry solutions teams. He continues to be active in security and privacy standards activities for security evaluations, identity management, digital signatures, role-based access control, healthcare informatics and telehealth.

He is an International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium [(ISC)²®] Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), with Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) concentration.

He is a member of:

• the Association for Computing Machines (ACM),
• the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and its Computer Society (senior member),
• the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA),
• the Computer Security Institute (CSI), and
• Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the International Honor Society for the Computing Sciences.