Alan DeKok

Alan DeKok is CEO of InkBridge Networks and leader and co-founder of the FreeRADIUS Project, which is the world’s most widely used RADIUS server. FreeRADIUS is used in hundreds of thousands of corporate networks and ISPs worldwide, and it authenticates millions of network users every day. Originally trained as a nuclear physicist, Alan helped build the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. He now does consulting as one of the world’s leading experts on Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) frameworks, and especially the Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) protocol. Alan has been an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) contributor since 1999, and he has published many RFCs in the space. He also consults as a domain expert in patent litigation.