Rob Rawson

Rob has been active in the computer industry since 1978 in positions including sales engineering, product management and consulting to clients ranging from small businesses to international enterprises.

Rob came to CIS after spending 18 years at Novell, where he helped found and later led their consulting program in New York. He was one of the earliest adopters of Novell's Identity Management technologies including DirXML and iChain, and their current incarnations, Identity Manager and Access Manager. Some of the largest and most complex of these IAM solutions were architected by Rob.

Rob and the other members of his SIEM/IAM practice are thought leaders in the IAM space. Solutions developed at CIS led to a concept of "continuous compliance". The project which implemented this approach reduced PCI audit exceptions at a New York telecommunications provider from hundreds to a single one - and that remaining one was simply that there were no exceptions left to audit.

Most recently, CIS developed a methodology called "LiQuiDSOAP™" which is intended to provide a more re-usable framework for the integration of different web service applications, facilitating a greater convergence of identity between internal and cloud hosted applications.

Rob has donated custom software tools, written Microfocus/NetIQ Application Notes, and presented at Microfocus/NetIQ's BrainShare conferences in Utah, Europe and Australia. He attended the Rochester Institute of Technology for Computer Science, and brings software development methodologies and acumen to the rapid delivery of Identity Management solutions. Rob joined CIS in 2004.