Speaker Bio

Rod Wallace
Director, Office of the CTO
Nortel

Topic: The Promise of Secure Convergence

Rod Wallace is a fourteen year veteran of Nortel's networking business, providing solutions to Service Providers and Enterprises across all verticals. Mr. Wallace has been responsible for defining corporate-wide strategies for, and ensuring adoption of, key end-to-end functional capabilities in ipv6, ip Quality of Service, voice quality and network reliability. Currently as Director of Network Security within the Chief Technology Office, Mr. Wallace is responsible for the Nortel corporate security strategy. His team includes operations for handling security advisories, vulnerability assessments, customer security services, and security standards development. Particularly involved in activities involving the critical infrastructure, Mr. Wallace is a key contributor to the Network Security Telecommunications Advisory Council (NSTAC), the Cybersecurity Workgroup within the FCC's National Reliability & Interoperability Council, and is a Board Member of the Internet Security Alliance.