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Network Security and Software Expertise

The Team at Network Geographics has been involved in large software systems and network security since before the beginning of the Internet. Put their expertise to work for you.

Alan M. Carroll: CEO/Founder -

Alan earned a PhD from the University of Illinois in 1992 while building Epoch, the first windowed version of Emacs, and ConversationBuilder, a collaborative development environment. He worked for a series of startups ending at Global Internet Software Group on a team developing Centri Firewall for Windows NT. Global Internet Software Group was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1997. At Cisco Systems, Alan led infrastructure development efforts in network security and policy management software until 2005. Since he has been exploring new product ideas in network security for Network Geographics.

Susan Hinrichs: CTO -

Susan earned a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 1995 studying communication optimization techniques for parallel systems. After graduation, she joined Global Internet Software Group and was one of the architects of Centri Firewall. At Cisco systems until 2005, she led efforts in policy-based security management with the Cisco Security Policy Manager and Firewall Management Center. Now Susan lectures on computer security at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and designs and develops network security analysis algorithms for Network Geographics. She is a Certified Information System Auditor (CISA).