Kenneth P. Weiss

Kenneth P. Weiss is an American entrepreneur, human factors engineer and inventor. He invented the SecurID Card, now a trademark of RSA Security.

Weiss holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Bridgeport, continued graduate studies and research at the University of New Hampshire and Temple University, and received a doctorate from the Neotarian Fellowship.

He founded Security Dynamics in 1984 and served as CEO until 1986 and chairman of the board and CTO until 1996. He initiated the purchase in 1993 of RSA Security, then a small encryption company working in internet commerce. In 1994, Security Dynamics went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Weiss was the company's largest individual shareholder.. The company developed and sold the SecurID Card and RSA encryption technologies for computer security, electronic commerce and identity authentication. He resigned in 1996 citing policy disagreements with directors and with the company's operations and policies, when the company had achieved a market capitalization of more than $4 billion In 2006 the company was purchased by EMC Corporation.

In 1994 he published an article enumerating what he regarded as seven significant flaws in the Clipper chip initiative. Weiss’ position and the article contributed to the abandonment of the multibillion-dollar U.S. government program, which Weiss asserted would have allowed electronic eavesdropping on any US citizen with a surveillance chip embedded in private electronic communication equipment.

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