Highlights


1987 - Designed the first modular Anti-Virus programs "Vaccine, Checkup and Antidote" which received the PC Magazine's Editor's Choice Award. Symantec purchased a site license!

1988 - Wrote one of the first "undectable" virus scripts to introduce the concept of heuristic security scanning. At PC-Expo this virus defeated every Anti-Virus program exhibited (except Vaccine) causing the industry to adopt the heuristic techniques employed by Vaccine to protect PCs against unknown security attacks.

1989 - Designed a secure network and control program for inside and outside connections for the leading provider of secret flavor and scent formulas used in many well known consumer products.

1990 - Designed the protoype of the secure Citibank teller's and banker's workstations and ATM graphical user TCP/IP interface to the legacy mainframe system's account data.

1992 - Migrated Credit Suisse/First Boston's legacy systems to a secure Local Area TCP/IP based network connecting all departments throughout the bank.

1993 - Migrated SNA asynchorous telephone based EBCDIC market data systems to secure Internet SQL via TCP/IP connections for 100 and 10 Wall Street clients.

1996 - Migrated and tested Chase's legacy systems to a secure Internet based system during and after the bank's merger with Manufacturer's Hanover. Won CIO magazine and Windows NT magazine awards.

1997 - Consolidated USAA's national mainframe and network servers to a coherent and secure IP based architecture including secure data storage and messaging sevices.

1997 - Authored the Software Security (PIQUE) section of the Ernst & Young Fusion Project Management Manual.

1998 - NYC Associate Commissioner of Citywide Open and Network Systems, e-Government Chief Technology Architect and Citywide Information Security Manager for the Dep't of Information Technology and Telecommunications. Won "Best of the Web" for nyc.gov, the official NYC website.

1998 - Consultant to the NYPD for the country's first Cyber-Crime Unit. Performed some of the first investigations including terroristic threats and cyber-forensic analyses. Several projects were reported in Network World, InfoWeek, Network Computing.

1998 - Agency liasion and system architecture consultant for the creation of NYC's own independent Cyber-Crime Division, CISAFE.

2001 - CISAFE's Senior Manager of Citywide Information Security and Special Investigator for Cyber-Crime for the NYC Dep't of Investigation. (The country's oldest law enforcement agency).

2001 - United States Secret Service New York Electronic Crimes Task Force.

2001 - Performed post 9/11 anti-terrorist cyber-communications investigations with FBI and rebuilt the OEM command center which was destroyed (WTC 7).

2002 - Published over 80 Security Policy and Procedure Manuals which became NYC official regulations.

2002 - Board Member of NACHA (The Electronic Payments Association) Web Council for security and privacy of ACH electronic transactions.

2003 - Contributed Internet Security Curriculum to FLETC, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.

2003 - Designed and presented the "Hot Target" anti-terror communications system at InfraGard.

2004 - Contributed to the FBI Cyber-Crime Unit Field Manual.

2004 - Senior Security Analyst for the MTA State Police Enterprise Security Division.

2005 - Private and confidential personal and business security consulting providing HIPAA and PCI compliant solutions, educational security awareness programs sometimes funded by public and corporate grants.

Resume Details


CISP/PCI, HIPAA Compliance;  Web SEO/SEM, Marketing & Design,                 January 2005 -
Independent Consultant

 

Alliant Technologies                                                                                  June - December 2004
Senior Web & IT Security Consultant

MTA Police Department Enterprise Security Division        
 

 

Orchid Bioscience


CommonHealth Corporation           

e-PayStream                                                                                                    January 2003 - June 2004

Principal

 

City of New York                                                                            September 1998 - January 2003

Associate Commissioner; Chief Technology Architect E-Government (NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT)); Citywide Information Security Manager (NYC Department of Investigation (DOI)

 

 

ATOS/Origin                                                                                 December 1996 - October 1998

Senior Web and IT Consultant for key Origin US clients.

Ernst & Young  

 

 

Guardian Life Insurance

 


USAA

 

 

Chase                                                                                           October 1994 - December 1996

IT Consultant (for DMC)

 


Proficiencies

 



Press & Publications:

 NY Times, CIO, CSO, InfoWeek, Network World, Chicago Sun, PC Magazine, TIME, Windows NT

Education

Cooper Union

Yeshivah University

CUNY

Certifications / Training / Affiliations

DHS/FLETC/FBI (Author/Analyst)

FBI/NIPC InfraGard (Member/Presenter)         

HTCIA (Member/Presenter)

NACHA (Web Council Board Member/Presenter)

NYECTF/USSS (Member/Presenter)


Testimonials

"Thanks Ron, for your committment to bringing the "Capital of the World" into the 21st Century."
-Rudy Giuliani. Mayor, City of New York.

"Thank you for your excellent material on Internet Fraud. We will be including it on our agent field manual."
-Dave Thomas, Director of the FBI Cyber-Crime Division.

"We will be including your paper on terrorist tracking, banking and identity fraud in our curriculum and on our website."
-Kevin Manson. Federal Law Enforcement Training Center - Dep't of Homeland Security.

"Thank you Ron for tracking down the internet bomb threat to Times Square."
-James Doyle. Liutenant, NYPD Computer Information Technology Unit.

"Thanks for tracking down the obscene emails to our commissioner."
-Vincent Green. Inspector General, NYC Dep't of Investigation

"You saved my girl's life. I can only imagine what could have been in the future for schools and Shidduchim."-Teaneck, NJ

"My son was infuenced by his Internet "friends", many in our own community. He gave up his Heavy Metal music and clothes and now plays with Neginah. Thank you for being a G-d send to my family. Thanks to you his goyish pictures are off of Facebook and he can no longer be found on Google."
-Lakewood, NJ

"My daughter was being harrased by an anonymous somebody. He was tracked down and arrested for Cyber-Bulling, weapons posession and having child pornography on his computer and phone, much of which he superimposed innocent children's heads on disgusting pictures and put them on the internet. I was shocked but Mr. Benvenisti came through 1000%. Thank you for cleaning up all references to her on the internet and getting this dirtball behind bars."
-Brooklyn, NY

"Our son was spending a lot of time with his iPod. We don't have a computer or Internet so we thought it was just playing games. He went ballistic when we tried to take it away from him. We worked with his Rebbe who got Mr. Benvenisti involved. We found out he was accessing the internet via a public Wi-Fi connection and had access to the most horrible things imaginable. Mr,Benvenisti was able to work with our boy and the school counselor to get him off the iPod addiction."
-Deal, NJ

"Our son developed a gambling addiction to Poker which started on his DS-2, even though we do not have Internet. He started finding real games with other boys around town even on Shabbos. We had no idea that he was texting and emailing from his game box. Thank G-d his Rav and Rebbe were able to get him into counseling and back into his learning. Thank you Mr. Benvenisti for all your assistance in getting to the truth."
-Lakewood NJ