North Texas Security Experts Say System Offers Global Solution
(DALLAS – October 26, 2007) Dallas native Ray de Beasley has never been one to just sit back and watch. He’s always been a thinker and a problem solver.
Now, after years of research, development and guidance from some of North Texas’ top security experts, he has discovered an identity management system that could bring revolutionary changes to the billion-dollar global security marketplace.
De Beasley started working on the ‘B-System Privacy Protection Method while he was spending 15 years in the Texas Department of Corrections on drug charges. He refused to feel sorry for himself. He admittedly made a wrong turn and instead of letting his life waste away, he used his time to develop an idea to help fight crime instead of devising schemes to commit crime.
While in prison de Beasley created a system designed to crack down on financial fraud that has gotten the attention of a senior executive and EDS Fellow, local and national security experts, business executives, the University of Texas at Dallas, and Midwestern State University. Now, a free man, de Beasley is working 24/7 to make his dream a reality.
“I started an in-prison think tank with several convicts to kick around various criminal capabilities,” de Beasley recalls. “I discovered a technique that countered the illegal use of Social Security numbers. Then, I developed an algorithmic method that would prevent financial fraud without violating any civil liberty or challenging any banking laws or regulations.”
De Beasley’s system, in part consists of the use of a biometric print combined with sophisticated methods that appear to have solved the puzzle of issuing and using social security numbers. Known as inmate number 592557, de Beasley performed key punching data entry for Texas driver’s licenses, but also he took in-prison computer classes at Trinity Valley Community College. He also began reading any and all books on technology he could get his hands on and asked his mom to help him research common denominators that made financial crimes successful. To test his idea, de Beasley took advantage of his dank setting.
Working with fellow convicts, who had specialized in ID theft and other fraud, de Beasley was able to begin developing a system to counter those frauds. He used convicts that could provide him financial fraud and forgery expertise to challenge numerous scam scenarios in an effort to devise a foolproof system, he said.
Officials at EDS, Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX. and the University of Texas at Dallas have reviewed de Beasley’s concept, and have been pleasantly surprised.
“I must admit that I was very skeptical,” says Ranette Halverson, chair and professor of the Department of Computer Science at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX. “After all, many people have attacked this problem, but Ray was the first to pull everything together and create something that offers a comprehensive attack on the problem.”
Mr. Tom Hill, who runs the EDS Fellows and the Distinguished Engineering Program, says de Beasley’s concept “potentially solves an enormous identity management problem facing the United States government.” To further strengthen his business acumen, de Beasley’s is attending an entrepreneur course at Southern Methodist University, thanks to help from EDS’ Hill. The course is intended to teach de Beasley how to market his idea, better operate his company, and attract financial support for his
start-up.
Doug Harris, Ph.D., an Associate Dean and Research Professor, at the University of Texas at Dallas and a cyber-security expert, says, “With the current problems of identify theft, it is difficult to estimate the magnitude, value and impact of this program, but it will be huge. Now, de Beasley has filed an application to patent for his product, and he and his advisers are working with him to secure funds to create a model, beta test it, then take it to market.
Don Hicks., special assistant to the UTD president, says, “With luck, Ray might be able to license his design to a corporation with the resources and scale to bring a product to market. Whatever companies – and there are/will be several – face a global multi-billion dollar market.”
For additional information or to set up interview with Mr. de Beasley, please contact Neil Foote, Foote Communications LLC, neil@neilfoote.com, 214.448.3765.
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