Keith White
Security Services Director, Asia Pacific, Lucent Technologies

Dr. Keith White is Security Services Director for Asia Pacific and leads the Professional Security Services Consulting Practice team for Lucent Technologies.

White had started his career with Telecom New Zealand as a Telecommunications Engineer in the mid-1970s. He then joined IBM as a Customer Engineer, commissioning and servicing computers for two years and he moved on to Rank Xerox as an engineer for five years. White took on the electronic security field in his work for Coca-Cola before joining Optus Communications as National Security Manager.

In 1994, White joined Cardax Systems as the Australian General Manager and was responsible for many successful marketing campaigns in Australia and Asia. He had concurrently worked on major security infrastructure projects with Australian and Asian universities. White's stint with Cardax Systems brought him to the US, where he had established Cardax Systems in the Pan-American market. He has also worked on defense security projects with the organizations such as the US Navy, United Airlines and Motorola. In 1999, Keith headed back to Australia and spearheaded major security infrastructure projects with the Australian Department of Defence, Qantas Airways, Lucent Technologies, AT&T and the Independent Commission Against Corruption. In addition, he has worked on the TA Orange Telecommunications account, developing their network and facilities security infrastructure in Thailand, right up to 2001.

White was highly regarded in academia and was awarded the Doctorate in Science, Technology Development, for his work on token-based encryption technologies.