Dan Griffin, President

Dan is the founder of JW Secure and is a Microsoft Enterprise Security MVP. He previously spent seven years working on smart cards and cryptography for Microsoft while on the Windows Security development team. He has published several articles on security software development, as well as on IT security, and is a frequent conference speaker.

Dan holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Indiana University.

Todd Stecher, Senior Software Developer

Todd has a deep background in data encryption, network authentication, and authorization, gained from 16 years of professional experience in the field of computer security. Eight of those years were spent working on the Windows Security Team at Microsoft, where he was the primary owner of the Kerberos authentication protocol.

Todd also managed the elite Windows Protocols team, which developed the Windows implementations of SSL, NTLM, and SPNEGO. Since leaving Microsoft in 2004, Todd has been focusing on integrating cutting edge security solutions into existing or planned products.

Tom Jones, Program Manager

Tom Jones is well-known in the financial services retail payments and security fields. He was the founding chair of the American National standards subcommittee ASC X9A10 on electronic payments.

Tom has worked with the financial services community with multiple organizations including EDI (X12) and X9 on electronic payments, First Data, Intel and Microsoft. Since 2001, Tom has been working to improve Windows security, manageability and usability.