Carlos Solari of SecureG

Solari is vice president and COO at SecureG, where his work involves developing NextGen Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for device identity integration into the attestation / authentication security requirements for industrial scale systems such as 5G networks and renewable energy industries.

He earned a BS in biology from Washington and Lee University, then was commissioned as a U.S. Army Officer in the Signal Corps. During his 13 years in the Army, he completed  certifications / degrees including Signal Communications officer courses, Airborne, Army Ranger; with the Air Force training for a position as an Army Satellite Systems Engineer; with the Navy at the Naval Postgraduate School graduating with a MS in Systems Technologies.

After the Army, he took an assignment with the FBI where he worked to develop and lead various major level IT programs that became the basis of new capabilities, that were effectively product developments and roll-outs with national importance. He concluded six years at the FBI as a Senior Executive Service Level 4.

Solari served as White House CIO from 2002 until February 2005, where he led a complete ICT modernization to support the many Executive Office of the President business functions converting manual processes to IT-service supported automation touching on every aspect of White House operations and functions.

In 2006, he joined Bell Labs of Lucent Technologies as vice president for a team focused on cyber security and reliability. He was head of a specialty firewall product-line for critical enterprise scale use meant for managing large deployments and operations that could pass NSA-level reviews. 

During his time at Bell Labs, Solari wrote the first of several books, including Security In a Web 2.0+ World, which was published in 2009 by Wiley. It captured concepts now more generally accepted, such as the cybersecurity governing principle called Security by Design (SbD) and the notion of supply chain provenance as a requirement to complete a risk-based approach to cybersecurity.

Solari’s other roles include General Manager / VP for Global Security Solutions at Computer Science Corp, VP for Security Services at Comodo and VP with Mission Secure focused on cybersecurity of Operations Technology that encompasses industrial control systems.