Moderated by:
Bob Carty
CBC radio producer and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE)

Presentations by:
Alice Sturgeon
Senior Director, Accessibility, Identity Management and Security, Treasury Board Secretariat

Gus Hosein
Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics & Senior Fellow, Privacy International

Neville Pattinson,
Director of Marketing and Government Affairs, Gemalto

Stephanie Perrin
Director, Research and Policy,
Office of the Privacy Commissioner, Canada

Director of Government Affairs;
Identity Division,
Gemalto
Austin, Texas, U.S.
Phone: 512-257-3982

Email: Neville.Pattinson@Gemalto.com

Neville Pattinson is a leading expert on smart cards and using the microprocessor chip to keep identity credential data and biometrics secure and private.  He’s been heavily involved in planning and implementing a number of federal government security initiatives including the Dept. of Defense Common Access Card (CAC); State Dept.’s Electronic Passport; Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative cards; Transportation Dept.’s Transportation Worker Identity Credential (TWIC) and Transportation Security Administration’s Register Traveler program. Mr. Pattinson works closely with several other agencies -- General Services Administration, Treasury, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs and NASA – which have smart ID programs underway.

Pattinson helped lead the industry response and actively helped direct the content of new FIPS201, SP 800-73 & SP800-76 suite of specifications for credentialing of Federal employees and contractors.

Pattinson was the first to recognize serious privacy issues relating to the lack of adequate security in proposed e-passport applications. He single handedly led a global education initiative which resulted in all e-passports implementing appropriate security to protect the privacy of citizens.

Mr. Pattinson is an ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional  (CIPP) and is member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). He is a Board Member of the International Biometric Industry Association (IBIA) and Board Member of the Smart Card Alliance.

As Program Manager for the DoD Common Access Card (CAC) card program, Mr. Pattinson is credited with obtaining the first-ever FIPS 140-1 Level 2 certification for the Java-based Cyberflex Access Smart Card and its integration in the DoD CAC card program. He was also responsible for the introduction of Cyberflex Access and accompanying middleware into the Schlumberger-wide corporate smart card-based PKI (Public Key Infrastructure).

From Gemalto’s Austin, Texas U.S. headquarters Mr. Pattinson leads a global team of product engineers, field marketing managers, manufacturing and technical support personnel to serve the U.S. access market, the largest in the world, with secure, smart card-based credentialing solutions. 

Since 9/11 2001, interest in security from the public sector has steadily increased as the U.S. federal government standardizes on smart card technology as the underlying technology to secure its people, data and borders.  Mr. Pattinson’s strategic vision and customer focus have made Gemalto the leading supplier to the four GSA smart card prime contractors BearingPoint Inc. EDS, Maximus Inc. and Northrop Grumman.  Gemalto has shipped more than 7 million Cyberflex Access cards in the U.S. for the DoD Common Access Card (CAC) program. 

Gemalto makes its Cyberflex Access cards for the U.S. market in its facility in Owings Mills, MD, near Baltimore.  The 250-employee plant boasts a 40-year heritage of secure card manufacturing, producing cards since 1964 at an annual rate today of 60,000,000. 
Pattinson holds seven patents related to metering, prepayment and smart cards, and has published several papers on related security matters.  Notably, on the topic of smart cards for identification credentials, he wrote the Schlumberger White Paper entitled “Smart Cards as Government ID cards” and the Smart Card Alliance White Paper entitled “Chains of Trust in Secure ID Systems.” He was also referenced as a valued contributor to the Markle Task Force paper, "Creating a Trusted Information Network for Homeland Security.”

Mr. Pattinson’s public speaking on security, smart cards, and identification credentials include a CardTech/SecurTech presentation, “Smart Cards are the Vital Link in the Chain of Trust for Credentialing Systems” in April 2004 and a Smart Card Alliance presentation, “Smart Cards as Corporate Badges in PKI systems” in July 2003. Over 2004-2005 Pattinson presented several papers on e-passport security and privacy issues to numerous conferences around the world.

His perspectives on security-related issues are published regularly in Government Computer News, Federal Computer Week, Card Technology, Electronic Engineering Times and ID Newswire.

Pattinson graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from Leicester Polytechnic in England in 1984.

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This event was sponsored by the Faculty of Information Studies,  University of Toronto with a grant
from the Stepping UP Academic Initiatives Fund, and by the SSHRC-funded
Information Policy Research Program's Digital Identity Construction project.