Founder/president Bruce D. Wilner builds cutting-edge secure boxes for key software and hardware vendors, from Fortune 50 firms to stealth-mode Silicon Valley startups. His firewall designs protect the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the U. S. Judicial Conference, and the Secretary of Transportation. Bruce architected the National Security Agency's (NSA) earliest approved multi-level secure (MLS) RDBMS, Trusted RUBIX, and chaired seminal NSA committees devising formal mathematical models of secure UNIX and TCP/IP. His hands-on internals experience embraces UNIX kernels, protocol stacks, firewalls, e-ppliances, RDBMS, and compilers/translators/parsers. Bruce holds the CISSP and coveted CCP certifications (endorsed by IEEE and ACM) in security and systems programming and served as senior referee for IEEE Computer. Born in New York in 1963, Mr. Wilner earned his B.E.E. (1982) and M.E.E. (1983) degrees from The Cooper Union under full-tuition merit scholarship and New York State Regents Scholarship.

Viktor E. Hampel, principal security engineer, is a frequent advisor to the Secretary of Defense, for whom he led the evaluation of public key cryptography and continually championed its eventual adoption as a government standard. A distinguished figure in the federal INFOSEC standards community, Mr. Hampel was the chief author of FIPS PUB 196 and a key contributor to FIPS PUB 140-2. During his 33-year tenure at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he founded and directed the Technology Information Systems Program, which established many precedents in the areas of distributed computing, data mining, and logic programming. In recognition of his outstanding career, which has included consulting to NATO, the United Nations, and the National Academy of Sciences, Viktor was honored with the Federal Laboratories Consortium's 1990 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer. Mr. Hampel served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps after completing advanced degrees in physics and engineering at the University of California.

Cheryl L. Cohen-Wilner, vice president of marketing, has more than ten years' experience vending high-technology solutions, including e-business consulting services, technical training, network-attached storage (NAS) technology, and network management software, for for companies including IBM, Procom, and Catapult. Cheryl won her B.S. degree in accounting in 1993 from Smeal College of Business Administration at The Pennsylvania State University and her master's degree in technology management in 1998 from the University of Maryland at College Park, University College. Her unique and refreshing perspective, comforting manner, and compelling presentation of our singular capabilities and skill set are among the factors that enabled NSLI to enjoy startling growth long after the".com boom," as well as to capture business that had traditionally belonged to much larger, older, more firmly entrenched consulting firms with considerable federal past performance records.