Profile

Doug McDorman is a Principal Consultant in the Identity & Access Management group and the Federation Practice Lead at Certified Security Solutions (CSS).

Doug specializes in authentication systems and solving complex problems in global heterogeneous enterprises with tools such as federation using SAML and WS-Federation, cross-platform authentication and authorization using Kerberos and LDAP, and X.509 certificate deployment with custom designed Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) systems. Doug is co-author of the "Windows Security and Directory Services for UNIX Guide" from Microsoft.

While at CSS Doug has helped enterprise customers in the Finance, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Retail and Educational fields deploy solutions such as Single Sign-On systems (SSO), Federating with partners, and one of the largest Microsoft Certificate Services PKI deployments in existence.

Doug has over 16 years of experience in computer security, programming, databases, Internet technologies, and networking. His previous experience includes software development and management at CyberSafe, a Kerberos infrastructure product company, a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Queen's University, Canada, and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Washington.