Andrew D. Newman

Andrew has spent the last 22 years at Yale University working on
campus-wide infrastructure initiatives. He has been active in the design
and deployment of Yale's high-speed network as well as the establishment
of policies, services and best practices aimed at network stability and
ease of management. Andrew's interests include the design of scalable
authentication mechanisms and the management of long-term institutional
credentials. Additional areas of expertise include the design of flexible
security models in a multi-tier software environment and the analysis
of security practices for adherence to stated standards.

While at Yale, Andrew has been responsible for designing (and initially
supporting) the first campus-wide NetID subsystem whereby all community
members could authenticate to campus resources with a single durable
identifier. In parallel with this effort was the establishment of
Kerberos as the campus standard intra-University authentication framework.

In his current role as Director of Technology & Planning, Andrew leads a
small focused group of senior technologists who help set the University
standards for a significant portion of the campus Information Technology
infrastructure. Included in this effort is the design and deployment
of the Central Authentication Server (CAS) that allows safe distributed
web-based authentication by members of the campus community. Other group
initiatives include the roll-out of Yale's first student-oriented campus
portal based upon the open source JA-SIG uPortal software.