User:Heomap1983/Tarique Mustafa

Tarique Mustafa
Tarique 2010
Born	Mustafa, Tarique (1963-08-06) August 6, 1963 Karachi, Pakistan, Pakistan
Nationality	Pakistani American
Alma mater	University of Southern California NED University
Occupation(s)	CEO of nexTier Networks, Inc., Hi-Tech Computer Industry Executive and Entrepreneur

Tarique Mustafa is an American of Pakistani origin. He was born in Karachi, Pakistan on August 6, 1963. Tarique is a Silicon Valley technologist and hi-tech entrepreneur. He is currently the founder and CEO of nexTier Networks, Inc. [1], a Silicon Valley data security company that has developed the new generation of Semantic analysis based software solution for Data Leak Prevention. On the one hand, he is also the inventor of 2 patents which are high accuracy document information-element vector encoding server patent that is about verifying one or more information elements in the document sent through network, and System And Method For Deprioritizing And Presenting Data for detecting signature match. Moreover, Tarique was an invited guest speaker of several Data Leak Prevention conferences.

Education

Tarique Mustafa was a student of NED University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi, Pakistan where he received the Award of Dean’s Gold Medal on graduation with B.E. Mechanical Engineering in 1987. One year later, in 1988, Tarique came to the United States on a Rotary International Scholarship to attend University of Southern California (USC) for graduate education in Engineering and Computer Science. At USC (1988-1994), Tarique Mustafa received his Master of Engineering and completed a coursework requirement of PhD focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Database. While attending the University of Southern California, he was, one more time, received a research scholar at Department of Computer Science, Industrial & Systems Engineering and Applied Mathematics. Along with receiving a scholar, he is also teaching and research assistant at Department of Computer Science, Industrial & Systems Engineering and Applied Mathematics (1989-1994).

Career

In August 1994, he started his professional career with Symantec Corporation in Silicon Valley, California. At Symantec Corporation, Tarique Mustafa has held some important technical positions such as Principal Software Engineer and Architecture. In May 1997, he joined DHL Airways IT as a Senior Architect, Software System and Infrastructure. After that, he also held a key technical position at some technical companies such as Senior Software Systems Architecture at MCI WorldCom in 1999, founder, CTO, Vice President at Network Utilities, Inc., and CTO & Board Member at Andes Networks [2]. In 2005, he joined another Network Security Company named Nevis Network [3]. With those valuable experiences at many different Computer Security Companies, Tarique Mustafa founded nexTier Networks, Inc.[4] in June 2006 as a data Security Company that provides the Data Leak Prevention solution.

Frost & Sullivan 2009
Tarique Received Frost& Sullivan Award 2009

Honour & Awards

• 2010 - Received US Patent for inventor of High accuracy document information-element vector encoding server
• 2009 - Excellence in Technology Innovation Awards from Frost & Sullivan [5] from innovation concept of Semantic DNA Vector Encoding technique culminated unto a key patent.
• 1987 - Dean’s Gold Medal on graduation in Mechanical Engineering from NED University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi, Pakistan.
• 1986 - Title of Best Student Research Scholar in Computer Science.
• 1985 - Best Research scholar in Computer Science –Awarded by BCCI Foundation

Publications

Papers

• Mustafa, T., “Malicious Data Leak Prevention (DLP): Impact and Challenges for Business Processes”, In Proc. of DLP Conference - Russia, 2010.[6]
• Mustafa, T., “Security Event Correlation – Raw Network Security Data to Real-time Action”, In Network Systems Design Line, Feb. 8th 2006.[7]
• Mustafa, T., “Secure MIP (s_MIP™): An Architectural Paradigm for Enforcement of Strong Security Mechanisms in Next Generation Mobile Networks”, In Proc. of International Conf. On IT Technology, 2003.
• Mustafa, T., “Everything You Know About Wireless Is Wrong: A treatise on the evolution of Mobile Computing Technology and Market”, In Proc. of UCLA Wireless Conference, 2001 [8].
• Mustafa, T., “An Object Oriented Approach to the Design and Configuration of Manufacturing Systems”, In Proc. of International Conference on Object Oriented Manufacturing Systems, 1992.
• Mustafa, T., “System Architecture for Simultaneous Engineering Expert Systems”, In Vol. II of Proc. of Design Productivity Institute Conference, Feb. 1991.
• Mustafa, T., “Standardization in Computer Software and Hardware for Computer Aided Design Applications”, In Proc. of ASME Computers in Engineering Conference, 1985.

Patents

• High Accuracy Document Information-Element Vector Encoding Server, United States Patent No. 7,725,466.
• High Granularity Reactive Measures For Selective Pruning Of Information, USPTO Pending.
• Semantic~Security Correlation Analysis And Indexing [9], USPTO Pending
• System And Method For Deprioritizing And Presenting Data, US 2007/0118906 A1.

External Links

Podcasts

• Combining data loss prevention and identity management to protect confidential business data from security breaches, Data Security Podcast Episode 62 – Jul. 21, 2009
• Evasion Attacks: The “Next Frontier” in Data Leak Prevention (DLP), Hackers & Threats Track, RSA-2009 – Apr. 20-24, 2009.

Interviews

• Q&A with Tarique Mustafa, nexTier Networks, Security Matters Magazine
• DLP holds Reseller, MSP Opportunities – IT Channel News, SearchIT Channel.com

References

• High Accuracy Document Information-Element Vector Encoding Server, United States.
• System And Method For Deprioritizing And Presenting Data.
• Excellence in Technology Innovation Awards from Frost & Sullivan
• “Malicious Data Leak Prevention (DLP): Impact and Challenges for Business Processes”