Author's Profile

Brian Monkman is executive director of NetSecOPEN, a nonprofit, membership-driven organization with a goal of developing open standards for testing network security products. A 25-year network security veteran, he has extensive experience in technical support, sales engineering, and program management roles at technology companies including Nortel Networks, ICSA Labs, Sterling Software, and others. At NetSecOPEN, he leads an effort to significantly change network security product testing by developing open and transparent testing standards that will be used by approved test labs to test network security products in a manner that produces verifiable and repeatable results.