Karen F. Worstell Vice-President Atomic Tangerine Trust Group

Karen Worstell, serves as the Vice President of the The Trust Group at AtomicTangerine, with offices in London, San Francisco, Tokyo, Boston and Washington DC. Through her work with I-4, various government and public sector groups, and international standards she is internationally recognized in the field of information security. Karen currently manages an information security venture consulting practice specializing in Privacy, IT Risk Management, Cybercriminology, New Ventures, Business Value Creation. Her work at AtomicTangerine in the past year has resulted in the creation of two new information security ventures, SecurityPortal.com and an insurance facility for IT security risk underwritten by Lloyds' of London. AtomicTangerine is also the co-producer of the Information Security University in conjunction with DuPont, an e-learning environment for growing the information security profession that will eventually have over 300 hours of university level course material on-line.

Over the past fourteen years Karen has served in a variety of industry leadership roles, including the security subcommittee of the Aerospace Industries Association, IEEE sponsored security standards, OpenGroup, and the Network Security Information Exchange (NSIE). She currently is serving a four-year term on the Computer Systems Security and Privacy Advisory Board to the U.S. Department of Commerce. She is listed in the Who's Who in Executives and Businesses.

Before AtomicTangerine, Karen was Principal Consultant at SRI Consulting and Research Director for the International Information Integrity Institute (I-4). She previously served as Director of Information Security for Union Carbide Corporation in Danbury, Connecticut and as the Program Manager for Distributed Computing in The Boeing Company's Research and Technology organization in Seattle, Washington. There, she played an instrumental role in the development of enterprise security architectures, best practices, technology forecasts and advanced technology development.

She received her MS degree in Computer Science from Pacific Lutheran University (1987) in Tacoma, Washington, where she did thesis work on fast hardware encryption devices. Her BS degrees in Molecular Biology and Chemistry are from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington (1976, 1978).