Rick Ryan

Background

About Rick Ryan

Rick Ryan is a Pitney Bowes Fellow in the Strategic Technology and Innovation Center at Pitney Bowes. His research areas include Security, Internet of Things and Blockchain technology. Rick was instrumental in the development of SmartLink™, an IoT product which connects existing customers postage to the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud. He is the security architect of Clarity™, an Industrial Internet Platform for Pitney Bowes’ large mail processing equipment. Rick played a key role in the development, assessment and approval of postage evidencing security architectures. He led the first certification of a smart card under the NIST FIPS 140 Cryptographic Module Validation Program and authored the security sections of the Universal Postal Union “Digital Postage Mark” and “Digital Postage Mark Supporting Infrastructure” standards. Rick chaired the Security and Privacy Working Group for Dossia, a Personally Controlled Health Record system. He is the Principal Architect of the Secure Evidencing Platform which repurposed Pitney Bowes’ metering security and lifecycle management capabilities for use in other markets. Rick holds more than 100 US Patents. His other research activities include application of secure coprocessors, side channel attacks, secure printing architecture design, and security infrastructure design and assessment. Rick joined Pitney Bowes in 1987 after receiving a Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rick is also Director of Worship at Bethany Alliance Church in Stratford, CT.