Thought Leader

E. Edward Bassett
VICE PRESIDENT, GLOBAL SECURITY

As a CIBER Vice President and the leader of CIBER’s Global Security Practice, Ed Bassett is responsible for helping CIBER clients secure their critical information assets, whether it’s for e-commerce transactions, sensitive customer records, or classified military communication. Mr. Bassett’s expertise is in state-of-the-art techniques for Internet and e-commerce security and systems design, such as application security, access control, authentication, encryption, network security, Public Key Infrastructure and security management practices.

Mr. Bassett possesses more than 20 years of experience as an information systems security architect. He has been the principal advisor to Fortune 500 and government clients on information systems security. Mr. Bassett was the lead security architect for several large-scale, high-value e-commerce and e-government systems, aerospace systems, sea systems, defense systems, and IT infrastructure projects. Mr. Bassett has managed comprehensive security programs involving all security disciplines. He designed security for the IRS’s Electronic Federal Tax Payment System, the first IRS payment system approved for connection to the Internet, and which processes nearly $2 trillion worth of transactions each year. Mr. Bassett’s work is used worldwide—he has designed IT security systems that been used on all seven continents, including Antarctica.

Mr. Bassett has published several articles on security topics, such as secure system design, digital signatures, and e-commerce security. He is a frequent speaker on effective security techniques at security symposiums, conferences, and CIO forums.

You can contact Ed Bassett at 303.220.0100.