Aon Consulting Expands Information Security Consulting Services Capabilities
08 Maggio 2006 - 4:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
Addition of Veteran Staff Bolsters Service Line's Presence and
Emphasis on Information Security Consulting CHICAGO, May 8
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Consulting, the human capital
consulting organization of Aon Corporation (NYSE:AOC), announced
today the expansion of its information security services consulting
capabilities with the addition of numerous industry experts. These
new members join the company's information security unit of its IT
risk consulting group, which is a part of Aon Consulting's
Financial Advisory and Litigation Consulting Services practice.
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"These are important additions to our practice, further
strengthening our information security and electronic discovery
expertise," said Warren Kruse, U.S. practice leader of Aon's IT
risk consulting group. "Our information security consulting
capabilities have proven to be extremely valuable to clients, as
issues of this nature continue to impact businesses worldwide." The
Aon Consulting information security services unit assists clients
with risk and vulnerability assessments, penetration testing,
regulatory compliance reviews, business continuity and recovery
planning, security program reviews, security awareness reviews,
application assessments, source code reviews and physical security
surveys. The new members of this team include, among others, the
following: Salahuddin (Sam) Kamran, senior director, most recently
served as a director in Kroll's Financial Advisory Services'
High-Tech Investigations and IT Consulting practice. Prior to
joining Kroll, he founded a security/technology consulting and
operational support firm. Kamran brings more than 15 years of
experience in information technology consulting, auditing, risk
assessment, best practices and regulatory compliance for
information systems. He is a Cisco Certified Network Professional,
(ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional,
Information Systems Audit & Control Association Certified
Information Security Manager and a Novell Certified NetWare
Engineer, as well as being certified in INFOSEC Assessment
Methodology by the National Security Agency. George G. McBride, a
director with Aon Consulting, previously served as managing
principal of the reliability and security consulting group at
Lucent Worldwide Services. McBride was also a senior network
security manager at Lucent Technologies where he managed the global
risk assessment and penetration group, and was responsible for the
development of the Asia Pacific IT security operations. He began
his career as a civilian electronics engineer for the U.S. Army
Communications & Electronic Command. During his 15 years in the
industry, McBride has worked with clients from around the world to
assess and address information security threats and
vulnerabilities, including conducting large-scale vulnerability
assessments, and application and network testing and developing, as
well as implementing security programs. He is a (ISC)2 Certified
Information Systems Security Professional and an Information
Systems Audit & Control Association Certified Information
Security Manager. Troy D. Smith, a director, has more than 20 years
of collective experience in consulting, information security and
information technology. Most recently, Smith was a senior vice
president and national practice leader for IT risk and security
consulting at Marsh Risk Consulting. He also served as a principal
and national practice leader for the IT consulting practice at
Ernst & Young. Smith has worked with clients from around the
world to design and deploy solutions related to IT risk management,
IT and network vulnerability management, incident response
planning, physical security planning, IT continuity planning,
business continuity management, information security policies, and
security awareness and training. Kamran is based in New York,
McBride is based in New York and New Jersey, and Smith is based in
Chicago. For more information, contact: Joe Micucci, Aon
Consulting, 312-381-4786, . About Aon Aon Corporation (
http://www.aon.com/ ) is a leading provider of risk management
services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human capital and
management consulting, and specialty insurance underwriting. There
are 47,000 employees working in Aon's 500 offices in more than 120
countries. Backed by broad resources, industry knowledge and
technical expertise, Aon professionals help a wide range of clients
develop effective risk management and workforce productivity
solutions. Aon Consulting is among the top global human resources
consulting firms, with 2005 revenues of $1.255 billion and 7,000
professionals in 120 offices throughout the world. Aon Consulting
delivers integrated consulting solutions to help clients with
employee benefits, human resources outsourcing, compensation,
communication and management consulting. This press release
contains certain statements related to future results, or states
our intentions, beliefs and expectations or predictions for the
future which are forward-looking statements as that term is defined
in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These
forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from either historical or anticipated results depending on a
variety of factors. Potential factors that could impact results
include: general economic conditions in different countries in
which we do business around the world, changes in global equity and
fixed income markets that could affect the return on invested
assets, fluctuations in exchange and interest rates that could
influence revenue and expense, rating agency actions that could
affect our ability to borrow funds, funding of our various pension
plans, changes in the competitive environment, our ability to
implement restructuring initiatives and other initiatives intended
to yield cost savings, our ability to execute the stock repurchase
program, changes in commercial property and casualty markets and
commercial premium rates that could impact revenues, changes in
revenues and earnings due to the elimination of contingent
commissions, other uncertainties surrounding a new compensation
model, the impact of investigations brought by state attorneys
general, state insurance regulators, federal prosecutors, and
federal regulators, the impact of class actions and individual
lawsuits including client class actions, securities class actions,
derivative actions, and ERISA class actions, the cost of resolution
of other contingent liabilities and loss contingencies, and the
difference in ultimate paid claims in our underwriting companies
from actuarial estimates. Further information concerning the
Company and its business, including factors that potentially could
materially affect the Company's financial results, is contained in
the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Joe Micucci, Aon Consulting, +1-312-381-4786, or Web site:
http://www.aon.com/
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