Meet the Management Team

Brian Komar - President

Brian Komar is the president of IdentIT Inc., a consulting firm specializing in Public Key Infrastructure design and implementation and identity integration solutions. Brian partners with Microsoft on several ventures, authoring material for Microsoft’s Prescriptive Architecture Guides, writing PKI white papers for Microsoft’s Security team, and working as a principal consultant for the Microsoft Center of Excellence enterprise PKI design engagements.

Brian is a frequent speaker at IT industry conferences such as Microsoft Tech•Ed, Microsoft IT Forum, and Windows IT Pro Magazine Connections.

Paul Adare - Chief Technology Officer

Paul Adare, the Chief Technology Officer of IdentIT Inc., is a security consultant specializing in Identity Management, Rights Management, and Public Key Infrastructure deployments. Paul has a wide ranging and varied background including the whole gamut of Microsoft technologies, Lotus Notes, Sun Microsystems, IBM AIX, and various flavours of UNIX and Linux.

Over the many years that Paul has been involved with computer systems and security, he has held many different roles including technical training (Microsoft Certified Trainer, Lotus Notes Certified Trainer, Sun Microsystems Certified Trainer), consulting (Microsoft, Lotus Notes, Sun, IBM, Security, Identity Management, Rights Management, PKI), subject matter expert for Microsoft Learning Products, support and help desk roles among others. Paul has been involved with Microsoft's Identity Management platform since he worked as a subject matter expert on the Microsoft Learning Product Course 2062, Implementing Microsoft Metadirectory Services.

Paul has been the Principal Consultant on a number of enterprise PKI and RMS deployments for large financial services customers in the US and Canada. In addition, Paul is a Microsoft MVP for Virtual PC and Virtual Server.