Internet and Security Industry Pioneer

Bio at Verisign: https://www.verisign.com/en_US/company-information/jim-bidzos/index.xhtml

Oral History at the Babbage Institute: http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/107117

Bio at the ICANN wiki: https://icannwiki.com/Jim_Bidzos

Inducted into the (US) National Cyber Security Hall of Fame 2013 http://www.cybersecurityhalloffame.com/

From the Cyber Security Hall of Fame page:

"Jim Bidzos is CEO and Chairman of VeriSign, Inc"

"He served as CEO of RSA Data Security from 1986 through 1999. Along with RSA co-founder and MIT professor Ron Rivest, Bidzos built RSA into the premier cryptography company in the 80s and 90s.

"Bidzos formed Verisign in 1995 to provide trusted certificate authority services to a global market after pioneering the concept within RSA beginning in 1986.He also created the RSA Conference in 1991, and was the Chairman of the event until his retirement from that position in 2004."