About Us

Today the acquisition of security technology is no longer a technical decision!

It is a management decision! If you are ever required to defend your business and security practices who is better prepared to represent you, subject matter experts with extensive security credentials and experience, who can articulate and represent every measure taken or the software engineer in the office representing to be a security administrator. If the latter is the case you will probably lose!

eCenturion is an industry leader in Managed Security Services with advanced security solutions for small office & home office (SoHo), mid-sized business' (SMB) the enterprise. Additionally, our Phalanx™ product is engineered specific for home use to protect families from Internet threats.

We are a collection of business, technology and security experts providing a broad range of solutions for managing, securing and analyzing all key components of your computing infrastructure.

Critical to the delivery of our Managed Security Service is our Sentry, hardware firewall, IPSec VPN/Router security appliance, which installs at the gateway to a clients network. eCenturion combines world-class experience in critical disciplines in one solution!

• Subject matter experts in security, privacy and trust management technology with experience in helping clients improve operations through proper use of technology. Very little happens today without the support of technology. Technology must be reliable, secure and aligned with business objectives.
• A recognized authority in security, privacy & identity theft, with law enforcement experience and leadership roles in advancing information security, fraud & identity theft prevention, and regulatory compliance.
  

Only eCenturion has brought these key components together in one comprehensive offering.

Management Team

Ray Ricks - CEO

After 18 years in financial services, where he focused on security and privacy concerns, Mr. Ricks founded eCenturion. He saw the obvious parallels between emerging regulatory environments such as Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLBA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and the experience he had leading efforts in largest bank in the world. He felt those affected industries could benefit greatly from the security and privacy process’ that banks had matured through.

During his tenure at Citibank, he was responsible for developing and implementing security & privacy standards, global fraud investigations and Identity Theft counter measures. Mr. Ricks also intiated the effort with the credit card associations to truncate account numbers from ATM & merchant receipts. He also stopped the outsourcing of call centers to prisons!

At Citibank's Technology Development group he designed security protocols for encryption key generation and key management with Citibank’s SmartCard project. He also managed data security with respect to hundreds of Citibank’s outsourcing partners. He later directed business development at Arcanvs, a software company specializing in Digital Certificate technology.

Mr. Ricks served as well at eBay where he was Director of Global Trust & Safety Strategy and was responsible for the "next generation" trust & fraud prevention model.

Mr. Ricks has also made contributions as a member of NACHA’s Electronic Check Council, Emerging Authorization Technology Committee and previously was a member of the South Dakota Attorney General’s Drug Policy Board. Currently, he is a member of the Utah Attorney General's Identity Theft Task Force.

Wayne Varga - Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Varga has been providing information security and business advisory services for over twelve years. Mr. Varga comes to eCenturion from the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, where was the Chief Information Security Officer. His responsibilities there encompassed all information security throughout the organization including policies, user education, technical security implementation and operations, and incident response. His responsibilities also included coordinating with various law enforcement agencies including state and local police, FBI, and Secret Service on security preparations and incident forensics. Wayne personally supervised the information security operations of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Prior to joining the Olympics, Mr. Varga was a manager in the eBusiness competency center of Arthur Andersen. While there, he helped to create and disseminate best practices and standards governing Internet security, organizational policies and procedures, and electronic commerce.

Mr. Varga’s unique approach to technology and security in business involves helping organization to make the technology work for the business, instead of making the business work to support the technology. He has applied this successfully in numerous organizations with amazing results.

Mr. Varga holds an MBA in Accounting from Arizona State University and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University. He is Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

David Cross - Director, Software Development

Mr. Mr. Cross has 12 years of experience in security and software development management and is CISSP certified. He previously served as VP of Research and Development for HealthCast, and Director of Security for Ingenix. He previously served as co-manager of development for Northrup Grumann, and designed the security for the DOD's EESOH project to work with the Air Force portal system. Mr Cross has also served as director of Development and Security for Post-n-Track.

Mr Cross specializes in security and software managment, biometrics, AI, PKI and encryption related software.

Advisory Board

W. Scott Blackmer

Scott Blackmer has practiced technology law with an international emphasis since 1982, working on IT-related transactions, standards, compliance counseling, and dispute resolution in over 100 countries. He also provides management consulting services on information privacy and security, frequently in association with the Burton Group, the Potter Group, and HR Privacy Solutions, Ltd.

Formerly a partner in the Washington, DC and Brussels offices of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Mr. Blackmer advises clients on licensing and technology transfers, compliance with privacy laws and security obligations, procurement and outsourcing contracts, e-commerce and web services, digital forensics, and related litigation and arbitration matters. He acts as general counsel to the Trusted Computing Group www.TrustedComputingGroup.org and XDI.ORG www.xdi.org, and he has represented other standards bodies and industry associations as well as corporations and individual entrepreneurs. Mr. Blackmer also serves as an arbitrator in Internet domain name proceedings brought before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva.

Mr. Blackmer currently serves on the board of directors of the International Security, Trust & Privacy Alliance, and he is an active participant in the Privacy and Computer Crime Committee of the American Bar Association, the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the ID Theft Special Interest Group of the Liberty Alliance, and the ongoing Identity Workshop sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

Mr. Blackmer is a frequent speaker and writer on IT law, e-commerce, and privacy, including presentations at industry and professional conferences and at the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, Carnegie-Mellon University, George Washington University, the University of London, the University of Toulouse, the Catholic University of Buenos Aires, the US State Department (Washington, Berlin, Brussels, and Shanghai), the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the International Monetary Fund, the Multilateral Investment Fund, and the Electronic Commerce Promotion Council of Japan. A list of selected publications and addresses is found at www.blackmerlaw.com.

Mr. Blackmer earned his JD degree with honors in 1981 from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall), where he was editor-in-chief of the California Law Review. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Maryland Bar and has been a registered foreign lawyer (while resident) in the French Order of the Brussels Bar and the UK Law Society.

William I. Miller

Mr. Miller provides brings 20 years of developing and marketing networking and security products with diverse business management skills in marketing, engineering, operations, and sales. Mr. Miller has a strong background in networking, security, hardware, software, and semiconductor industries. He currently serves as Sr. Director of Convergence Products at 3Com.

Kunio Toma

Mr. Toma is an international business consultant who facilitates trade with American and Japanese businesses. He also sits on the board of directors of MMG Holdings, Tokyo. MGM Holdings is a 6 Billion dollar financial services company that invests in infrastructure for companies that want to invest in other countries. On the board his focus is in developing Internet Television networks.

John R. Davies

Mr. Davies has over 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship, business and technology partnerships, and management in the financial Services, E-commerce, systems integration, and biotech industries. John is one of the pioneers in the science of complexity. He was a founding partner in CASA a company designing financial simulators for the banking industry using Nonlinear Adaptive Analeptics with advanced algorithms. His company was later acquired by HNC and then by FairIsaac. FairIsaac is the leading provider of decision management solutions powered by advanced analytics. They are also the engine behind the credit industry's Fico score.

Jack Katz

Jack Katz Has been identified as one of the ten top people to know by 'Technology Decisions Magazine', Jack is CEO and Co-Founder of KickStart Success LLC, a business startup, Web-based portal that provides the information, resources and community, individuals and entrepreneurs need to succeed.

Jack is an internationally recognized speaker, trainer, advisor, and author who specialize in the area of business and technology. Jack has over 25 years of Information Systems Management, Marketing and Business Development experience in such diverse industries as Retail, Healthcare, Financial Services, Insurance and Information Technology.

Mr. Katz has also held senior level management positions with Cisco Systems within their Services Strategy and Business Development Division, Sun Microsystems in market development, alliances and the global sales, Providian Financial Services, Blue Shield of California, and Safeway Inc. Jack received his BA and Masters degrees from the University of Colorado. He was an adjunct faculty instructor in computer science and business administration at the University of Phoenix.