Mr. Abdalla has more than nine years of industry experience in UNIX and network security, security assessments and development of security policy. During that time, he worked for and consulted to Fortune 500 clients deploying, testing, and managing secure infrastructures.

Mr. Abdalla spent three years with Enron between Enron Corporate and Enron Broadband Services. While at Enron Corporate, Mr. Abdalla managed Enron’s Internet infrastructure worldwide. During his tenure at Enron broadband, Mr. Abdalla developed their security policy and instituted their information security program This included the deployment of firewalls and intrusion detection systems, policy development and the security architecture design for Enron Online, Enron’s trading and financial transaction platform. While with Enron Broadband Services, Mr. Abdalla hired and managed the Information Systems Security team.

This team was responsible for the security of both the corporate network and the customer network which streamed real time multimedia content for clients. He is proficient with a wide variety of system and network security solutions, including routers, switches, system and network firewalls, server and network intrusion detection systems, public key infrastructure, and digital rights management as well as security policy.

Following his tenure at Enron, Mr. Abdalla was most recently a Program Manager at a large consulting firm. He has assisted Fortune 500 companies to improve the security of its operations and assets through internal and external penetration testing, security assessments of strategic operating units, and rewriting of corporate security policies. This work was critical in ensuring secure operations within the organization and the integrity of their information asset.

Mr. Abdalla received a Bachelor of Science degree from The University of Texas at Austin. While at The University of Texas, he majored in Computer Science. Mr. Abdalla has received certifications in numerous ISS products and in Cisco Security.

Mr. Abdalla joined Network & Security Technologies in January 2004, and lives in Houston, Texas.