Management Team

Mark Lippman – Mark Lippman is an experienced executive with over fifteen years leading security organizations at IBM, Cybertrust and L3 (formerly SMA, Inc). Mr. Lippman served as the Managing Principal for IBM Global Services’ Security & Privacy Practice leading a management team that served 8 of the largest 10 financial institutions in the US.

Mr. Lippman has led engagements with over 100 clients transcending almost every industry sector although his expertise is in the retail, distribution and government sectors. Mr. Lippman received his MBA at Wharton and currently manages the Arsenal Security Group practice located in Washington, DC. In addition, Mr. Lippman is a certified Quality Security Assessor (QSA) for the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards.

 

Michael Walter – Michael Walter is an information security professional with over ten years of industry experience. Mr. Walter has a Masters degree in Computer Science, three patents in information security, and a CISSP. He has presented at numerous conferences on issues including PCI-DSS, Social Engineering, Quantitative Risk, Building Security into the SDLC, and Best Practices in Intrusion Detection.

Prior to joining Arsenal, Mr. Walter worked as a Principal Consultant for Cybertrust and pioneered work in risk quantification. Before that, Mr. Walter worked for IBM in their Ethical Hacking department, Security Operations Center, and Security Intelligence department. Mr. Walter’s thesis work at the University of Colorado was behavioral profiling of hacker activity.

Mr. Walter is a certified Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) for the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards and currently manages the Arsenal Security Group Practice located in Denver, Colorado.

 

Amos Lu – Dr. Amos Lu is an experienced executive with many years leading IT organizations and is Arsenal's Chief Technology Officer.

Dr. Lu is a certified Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) for the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards.