Industry Veteran Hallam-Baker to Focus on Web Security at New Company

By Stephanie Jordan
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A perennial and well-known speaker at industry events, Dr. Phillip Hallam-Baker, formerly of VeriSign, is now with Comodo as vice president and principal scientist. He will spearhead Web security and software development in the Americas. Hallam-Baker has worked on Web security since 1992.

“Watching the company as a competitor in my previous position, I recognized Comodo as the industry rising star,” comments Hallam-Baker. “Since I began working on the Web at CERN in 1993, I have believed that the key to unlocking the full potential of the World Wide Web is to give people the confidence that they can use it securely. That is the vision that I knew Melih Abdulhayoglu and the executive team and engineering staff of Comodo shared, which is why we were able to work together as competitors to carry Extended Validation Certificates from a hope to an industry standard. Going forward, it is clear that the challenge of securing the Internet has never been greater and never more important.”

While at VeriSign, Hallam-Baker served as principal scientist and was instrumental in product development and training. He was a key technical contributor on numerous patents and co-inventor of protocols and was recognized for his industry leadership standards. Prior to VeriSign, he was a research scientist at MIT Laboratory for Computer Science where he had responsibility for Security and Payments issues in the newly founded World Wide Web Consortium and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory where he performed seminal work on securing high profile Federal Government Internet sites.

Dr. Hallam-Baker earned his doctorate in nuclear physics from the University of Oxford and his bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering from the University of Southampton in England.

Published August 12, 2010