New Salt Lake-based Xcera Consulting Focuses on E-commerce Policy

Utah attorney Benjamin T. Wilson has formed Xcera Consulting, Inc. to help companies enhance their e-business with guidance on law, policies and procedures related to e-commerce

Salt Lake City based attorney Benjamin T. Wilson has formed Xcera Consulting, Inc. to provide companies planning to enhance their e-business with guidance on e-commerce policies and procedures. Xcera will focus on requirements applicable to e-businesses, whether they interface with others in business-to-business B2B" or business-to-consumer B2C" relationships.

Xcera will also consult with service providers and consultants who help these businesses to take their commercial relationships online.
Wilson started the company to meet the demand of companies who do not have internal expertise in e-commerce policy, such as information security, transaction nonrepudiation and customer privacy. Many computer consulting companies who provide e-commerce solutions do not offer expertise in the policies, practices and procedures that create security and non-repudiation around electronic transactions," said Wilson.

Xcera will leverage the experience of Wilson and other associates to provide first class e-commerce policy consulting. According to Wilson, as businesses go online, they find the need to re-engineer their processes. Xcera can help these companies leverage the best practices for policies and procedures in the industry and 'reinvent' their business."

Businesses seeking more information about Xcera can visit the firms Web site at www.xcera.net.

About Ben Wilson

For the three years preceding the formation of Xcera, Ben Wilson was legal counsel at Digital Signature Trust Co. (DST), where he consulted on e-commerce solutions involving Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and implementations of digital certificate technology. He counseled DST on the TrustID Certificate Policy and other PKI initiatives, such as the General Services Administration's ACES" digital certificate program and the State of Washingtons PKI. Wilson has also advised numerous other groups involved with e-commerce, such as the mortgage and financial services industry, major credit card companies, the electric utility industry and the Department of Defense, through its external PKI for non-DOD trading partners, defense contractors, vendors and others.

Wilson is also a member of the American Bar Associations Information Security Committee where he is Co-Vice Chair and Rapporteur of the Committees PKI Assessment Guidelines (PAG), available at http://www.abanet.org/scitech/ec/isc/home.html.

Wilson has shown his expertise in the digital certificate industry by writing multiple policies including the TrustID Certificate Policy and DSTs Certification Practice Statements.
Prior to working for DST, Wilson worked in public and private sector law practice for 10 years where he gained broad experience in civil litigation and in advising individual and corporate clients.

Wilson graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi from the University of Utah in 1987 with an Honors degree in Economics, and from the University of Utah College of Law in 1990 with a Juris Doctorate degree. He received his Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE + Internet) accreditation in 1999 and has a broad knowledge of computers, computer networks and information security.

About Xcera
Xcera Consulting is a Utah corporation dedicated to providing valuable advice to its e-business clients in the form of policy consulting, particularly in the areas of security and transaction nonrepudiation. By dedicating itself to consulting on those electronic transactions that require policies and procedures for security and nonrepudiation, Xcera will play a critically needed role in todays economy by assisting with the development of business models and accompanying legal and policy framework for e-commerce sites. For more information about Xcera Consulting, visit www.xcera.net.