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 ITU-T Workshop on "New challenges for Telecommunication Security Standardizations"
 Geneva, 9 (PM) - 10 February 2009 Contact: tsbworkshops@itu.int 
Biographies 
Erik Andersen, (Rapporteur, ITU-T SG 17): Identification Services as provided by directories (X.500 incl. X.509)

Erik Andersen is the Rapporteur for the ITU-T Study Group 17 Question on “Directory Services, Directory Systems, and Public-key/Attribute Certificates”. Erik is the Project Editor for X.500 and edited the latest four editions. He has been involved in the X.500 standardisation since 1984 and participated in and chaired X.500 work shops. Erik is also the Project Editor for ITU-T E.115 - Computerized directory assistance.

Erik has Since 1995 worked as an independent consultant, incl. doing freelance work for Devoteam Denmark consultancy.

Erik worked for IBM for 27 years starting in the IBM semiconductor division in Vermont, USA, working on integrated circuits. Later joined IBM Denmark as a System Engineer ending as a Senior System Engineer. He was most of the time working as data communications and protocol specialist. Was the IBM Denmark’s top specialist on IBM’s Systems Network Architecture (SNA). Represented IBM in the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) standardisation work.

Erik worked with semiconductors at Haldor Topsoe in Denmark and Westinghouse in USA.

Erik took a M.S degree in Electronics and Physics at the Danish Technical University in 1965.

Served three years as an airplane electrician in the Danish Royal Air Force after four years training as an ordinary electrician.
Vladimir Belenkovich, (AGC): From public networks to public services

Vladimir Belenkovich made his way through Applied Mathematics, Software Development, IT solution integration, Large Networks design and implementation to his current status of info-communications consultant and evangelist. His narrow field of interests is SOA taken into the public networks context. He is a recognized public speaker in the conference space of Moscow, Russia. Most of his public activities is based on the Russian Association of Networks and Services including a series of publications in “RANS Magazine”.
Chairman: Herb Bertine, (former Chairman, ITU-T SG 17)

Herbert Bertine is the former chairman of ITU-T Study Group 17. He has been actively involved in the standards work of the ITU since 1975 and has held senior leadership positions for 28 years. He has devoted extensive efforts in facilitating cooperation with SDOs. He has represented the ITU-T in ISO/IEC/ITU-T SAG on security since its formation and is the ITU-T liaison officer to ISO/IEC JTC 1.

Herb also has been active in other arenas dealing with ICT standards including ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 and ANSI. He was instrumental in developing the collaborative procedures between ITU-T and JTC 1 (reflected in Rec. A.23) and in establishing the cooperative procedures with the IETF.

Herb retired in November 2007. He was Director, Standards at Lucent Technologies where he led Lucent’s standards efforts worldwide. He joined Bell Laboratories in June 1965 and spent his career in communication technologies. This included systems engineering work on modems, digital data systems, X.25 packet networks, open systems, and advanced communication systems. Since 1982, he had various responsibilities for corporate-wide standards management.

In October 2006, Herb was awarded the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Edward Lohse Information Technology Medal for outstanding technical and managerial leadership in establishing international information technology and telecommunications standards and the methods by which they are produced.

Herb has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree and a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Jianyong Chen, (Vice-Chair, ITU-T SG 17)

Dr. Jianyong Chen is technical advisor at ZTE Corporation. He has over 10 years of experience in information security and network security. From 2005, he is Vice-chairman of ITU-T SG17. During 2005-2008, he was Rapporteur of ITU-T SG17 Question-Countering Spam by Technical Means, and editor of various ITU-T Recommendations.
Sang Rae Cho, (ETRI, Korea): Trend in User-Centric Identity Management Technology

Sangrae Cho is a senior researcher of Digital ID Security Research Team in ETRI, South Korea. Mr. Cho has graduated from Imperial College London in 1996 obtained Beng Computing degree and studied MSc in Information Security in Royal Holloway, University of London in 1997.

Mr. Cho started his career as a researcher in LG Corporate Technology Institute in 1997 and has worked in ETRI for over 6 years as a security researcher. During that time, Mr. Cho has actively involved to construct the national PKI infrastructure project until 2001. In 2001, Mr. Cho has spent a year in University of North Carolina at Charlotte as a visiting scientist to carry out access control and authorization project. From 2004, Mr. Cho has done several projects relating to Digital Identity Management including SAML v2.0 Interoperability Conformance Test project.
Mohamed M.K. Elhaj, (Vice-Chair, ITU-T SG 17)

Mr. Elhaj holds BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Engineering from Near East University (Turkey) and now he is doing a Ph.D in Electrical and Electronic Department at the Sudan University of Science and Technology.

Mr. Elhaj is now working for the National Telecommunications Corporation, the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority body, as Chief Network Security Officer. He was head of the Internet Filtering Project and he involves in many Standardization activities in Sudan and Africa. He is also responsible for many national projects concerning Security like National Security Awareness project and Sudan SCIRT Project.

Mr. Elhaj was elected Vice-chairman, Study Group 17 at the World Telecommunications Standardization Assembly (WTSA-08) that was held in Johannesburg South Africa in October 2008.
James Ennis, (US Government): Best practices for organizing national cybersecurity efforts

James Ennis (Jamie) is the Director for Advanced Network Technologies in the Communications and Information Policy Deputate of the Economic Bureau of the U.S. Department of State. He currently devotes more than half his time to cybersecurity issues.

Jamie coordinates the U.S. positions in preparation for International Telecommunication Union meetings where global standards are developed for communications networks, including in such areas as NGN, ENUM, emergency and disaster relief communications, and cybersecurity (including Identity Management or IdM). He leads U.S. delegations to meetings on these issues (currently including ITU-T Study Groups 2, 13, 17 and TSAG) at the ITU. He is also the Rapporteur for a group in the ITU Development Sector (ITU-D Q.22) that is developing a report on cybersecurity best practices for developing countries.

Prior to joining the State Department in 2002, he was Deputy General Counsel at Iridium LLC, the satellite cellular phone company, where he was responsible for legal issues associated with obtaining the frequency licenses and landing rights agreements in every country of the world necessary for the Iridium mobile satellite system to operate worldwide. Before that, he was for many years a partner in a law firm in Washington, D.C. where he specialized in communications law issues. During this period he was also General Counsel to the Washington Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) and the AFCEA Educational Foundation.

Jamie has a B.A. from Dartmouth, where he graduated with distinction, and a J.D. and LLM from Georgetown University Law School. He is past Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association's Sub-Committee on Satellite Communication Law and Vice-Chair of the International Bar Association's Committee on International Satellite Communications.
Walter Fumy, (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27): ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 - IT Security Techniques

Dr. Walter Fumy is Chief Scientist at Bundesdruckerei GmbH, Berlin.

Dr. Fumy has published numerous papers and several books, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and events. Since many years he is strongly involved in the international standardization of security techniques, currently serving as Chairman of ISO committee SC 27 "IT Security Techniques". He also chairs the BITKOM (German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media) Group on Security Management.
David Goodman, (EEMA): New business-models for network operators

David Goodman is Profile Product Line Manager in the Subscriber Data Management Business Line at Nokia Siemens Networks responsible for the One-NDS carrier-grade subscriber repository system based on LDAP/X.500 and used for real time network applications by operators worldwide.

Prior to this, David was director of Identitas, an independent consultancy in the area of digital identity and identity management. He has published numerous papers on identity and identity-related issues for over fifteen years. He is chairman of the board of directors of eema, the European association for identity and security.

He worked for three years at IBM Tivoli’s security product division, was chief marketing officer for Metamerge and spent six years as senior product manager with responsibility for directories at Lotus Development, an IBM company.

David holds a BA degree in Oriental Studies from the University of Manchester, and a D.Phil from the Oriental Institute at the University of Oxford.
Antonio Guimaraes, (Vice-Chair, ITU-T SG 17): International collaboration for national public networks security

Antonio Guimaraes is Vice Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 17, involved in Q.1/17 - Telecommunications systems security project.

Graduated in electronic engineering, in 1977, from ITA – Brazil, he has over thirty years of experience in telecommunications and real time software development. With a successful career in big international companies, Antonio has worked ten years in France and six years in Chile.

In April 2005, he joined Anatel, the Brazilian telecommunication regulator. He is now the coordinator of standardization, in the Office of International Affairs. This activity has close relationships with ITU, CITEL as well as with entities involved in the global information infrastructure and Internet Governance.
Mikhail  Kader, (Cisco): IP NGN Security Framework

Mikhail Kader is the Distinguished Systems engineer for Security working at Cisco Systems, Inc. He has over 20 years of experience in Information Technology and network security. As the key part of his job he has been providing security consulting to key SPs in Russia and CIS region. Mikhail was also the part of working groups in Russia developed several security documents and proposals including “Security Conception for Public Networks”, “Baseline security level for telecom networks”.
Magnus Kalkuhl, (Virus Analyst, Global Research and Analysis Team Kaspersky Labs GmbH): Fighting cybercrime in 2009

Magnus Kalkuhl has been employed since April 1st 2006 as a virus analyst at Kaspersky Lab Central Europe in Ingolstadt. As an IT forensics specialist, he is used to analyze how malicious code has gained access to a company network, what files have been illegally monitored or modified, and what evidence has been left behind as a result. His work supports companies, both in performing damage limitation following an attack and in establishing preventative measures to guard against potential hazards.

Being a member of the Global Research & Analysis group as well as being the designated head of the German research entity, he and his team are also monitoring the security situation in Central Europe as well as working on new approaches how to detect and fight potential threats.
Arkadiy Kremer, (Chairman, ITU-T SG 17)

1970 - graduated from the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (MTUCI)
1980 - Ph.D. on technical siences
1980 - 1994 - leader the set of projects in field of implementation the information and telecommunication technologies
from 1994 - chairman of Russian Association for Networks and Services (RANS)

Executive Committee
from 1997 - head of RANS department in MTUCI
from 2004 - vice chairman of the ITU-T SG 17
from 2008 - chairman of the ITU-T SG 17
J.S. Lee, (ETRI, Korea): ITU-T Security Standardization on Mobile Web Services

Jae Seung Lee is a Standardization Special Fellow and a senior researcher in ETRI, Korea.

He has been involved in ITU-T standardization activities for several years in the area of Information Security. He was the Project Editor for X.1143 (Security architecture for message security in mobile Web Services), and now he is the Project Editor for X.websec-4 (Security Framework for enhanced Web based Telecommunication Services).

He worked at Dacom for 3 years and he was involved in the development of security solutions and E-Commerce systems. He has worked at ETRI for 10 years as a senior researcher and a project manager. He has actively implemented several Research and Development projects on E-Commerce security, XML Security, and Web Services security since he has joined ETRI.

He received a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Sogang University and a master’s degree in Information and Communications Engineering from POSTECH, Korea.
Bill McCrum, (Industry Canada)

Bill McCrum has an Honours Bachelor and Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Queen`s University of Belfast. He is presently Deputy Director General, Spectrum Engineering in the Canadian Department of Industry. His responsibilities include telecommunications regulation, post market surveillance, network vulnerability analysis, and implementation of telecom aspects of various Trade Agreements with Canada’s major trading partners. He is Executive Secretary of the ICT Standards Advisory Council of Canada (ISACC) and participates in a number of international standards bodies. Bill has authored a technical book on network interconnection issues and published a wide range of technical papers on data communications issues.
Igor Milashevskiy, (INTERVALE): Secure Mobile Banking as Telecommunication Operator Service

Igor Milashevskiy is an associated Rapporteur of Q16/13 and Q7/17.

Since 1998 Igor Milashevskiy is a founder and Board Chairmen of Intervale, specializing in architecture and software development for Mobile Banking systems. Prior to his activity with Intervale, he was a Commercial Director and Vice-President of Vimpelcom, Russia in 1994-1998. In 2004-2007 he headed up the Ministry of Communications of Chechen Republic.
Ostap Monkewich, (Consultant, Industry Canada): Providing testability for ITU Recommendations

Ostap Monkewich received B.Eng. (McGill University), M.A.Sc. (University of Ottawa) and Ph.D. (University of Ottawa) degrees, all in Electrical Engineering. He spent his career in testing in several major fields, including aerospace, telephony and Information and Communication Technology. Since 1980 he has been contributing towards the development and standardization of conformance and interoperability testing methodology in ITU-T, ISO/IEC, ATM Forum and IETF. Within the Standards Council of Canada, he developed a program for laboratory accreditation in the Information Technology field and engaged in harmonization of test laboratory accreditation criteria and recognition of test results between North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. He developed an interpretation of ISO CASCO laboratory accreditation standard for use in the ICT field and served as technical test laboratory assessor in the Canadian national accreditation system. In the previous two Study Periods he served as Vice-Chairman of SG 17 and Chairman of WP 3/17. He is currently Chairman of JCA-CIT on Conformance and Interoperability Testing in ITU-T.
Patrick Mwesigwa, (Vice-Chair, ITU-T SG 17): Business use of telecommunication security standards project

Mr Patrick Mwesigwa holds a BSc. in Electrical Engineering from Makerere University, Kampala and Masters in Operational Telecommunications from Coventry University, UK.

He worked with Uganda Posts and Telecommunications Corporation and later Uganda Telecom for a period of 20 years starting as a Pupil Engineer and was later promoted through the ranks to the post of Chief of planning. During his service with Uganda Telecom he was involved in planning, construction and maintenance of transmission and switching systems around the country.

Mr Mwesigwa joined Uganda Communication Commission as a Technical Manager in 2001 and was promoted to the post of Director/Technology and Licensing in 2008, a post he holds to-date.

Mr Mwesigwa was elected Vice-chairman, Study Group 17 at the World Telecommunications Standardisation Assembly (WTSA-08) that was held in Johannesburg South Africa in October 2008.

Mr Mwesigwa has participated and presented at a number of regional and international fora on telecommunications and ICT.
Chairman: Koji Nakao, (Vice-Chair, ITU-T SG 17)

Koji NAKAO is the Information Security Fellow in KDDI, Japan. Since joining KDDI in 1979, Koji has been engaged in the research on multimedia communications, communication protocol, secure communicating system and information security technology for the telecommunications network.

In the IT standards arena, Koji has been involved in ISO and ITU-T activities for many years as for telematic services protocol and information security technology. He is currently a chairman of WG4/SC27 in Japan, focusing mainly on network/application security and cybersecurity standards development and implementation and he will be a Vice-Chairman of ITU-T SG17 (Security) for the next study period (2009-2012).

Koji is also an active member of Japan ISMS user group, which was established in the 1st Quarter of 2004. He is the board member of Japan Information Security Audit Association (JASA) and that of Telecom-ISAC Japan, and concurrently, a Technical Group Chairs (ICSS: information communication system security) of The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.

Koji received the B.E. degree of Mathematics from Waseda University, in Japan, in 1979. He received the IPSJ Research Award in 1992, METI Ministry Award and KPMG Security Award in 2006, and Contribution Award (Japan ITU), NICT Research Award, Best Paper Award (JWIS) and MIC Bureau Award in 2007. He is a member of IPJS and IEICE. Koji has also been a part-time instructor in Waseda University since 2002.
Valterri Niemi, (3GPP SA3 Chairman): 3GPP SA3 status
  • PhD in Mathematics 1989 from University of Turku, Finland
  • Associate Prof. in Mathematics 1993 – 1997, University of Vaasa, Finland
  • With Nokia Research Center since 1997, first in Helsinki, now in Lausanne since 2008
  • In 3GPP SA3 from its establishment
  • Chairman of 3GPP SA3 since 2003
Alexander Ntoko, Head, Corporate Strategy Division, SPM Dept., ITU

Alexander Ntoko is the Head of ITU Corporate Strategy and ITU Focal Point for WSIS Action Line C.5 (Security and Confidence). His responsibilities include assisting ITU Secretary-General in ensuring the achievement of ITU Strategic Goals in many areas including confidence and security.

He is also responsible for managing the execution of the ITU Global Cybersecurity Agenda (GCA) - A global framework for international cooperation launched by ITU Secretary-General on 17 May 2007 in response WSIS decisions and calls from ITU membership for ITU to coordinate global efforts in building trust and security in the information society.

His activities in information technology (IT) security began in the late 80s in the United States where he obtained Bachelors and Master of Science degrees in Computer Science from the State University of New York (SUNY) in 1985 and 1987 respectively with specialization in Distributed Operating Systems and Data Communication Networks.

From the early 1990s, he played key role in the introduction of IT security services to ITU especially in the domain of e-commerce and initiated the World e-Trust Memorandum of Understanding (framework for building trust and confidence in ICTs).

Since 1998, he has implemented projects on cyber security including the use of advanced security technologies (biometric authentication and Public Key Infrastructure) in a number of developing countries. He has organized and spoken at many international events, written papers on technology strategies for cybersecurity and has assisted many developing countries on technology strategies and policies for cyber security in ICT applications (e.g., e-health, e-government, e-payment and e-business). He has been an official of ITU in Geneva, Switzerland for more than 18 years.
Michel Riguidel, (Telecom ParisTech, France): Future Internet Security

Michel Riguidel is the Head of the Department of Computer Science and Networks, at Telecom ParisTech (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, www.telecom-paristech.fr ) in Paris, where he lectures in security and advanced networks.

His research is oriented towards security of large Information Systems and Networks and architecture of communication systems (Security of the Future Internet, Trust and Advanced Networks).

In the IST Integrated Project of FP6, he is Key Researcher of the Secoqc Integrated Project, responsible of the Network Architecture.

In the FET of the FP6, he was the Security & Dependability Task Group Leader of the Beyond the Horizon Project.

In the ICT FP7, he contributes to the Coordinated Projects Inco-Trust (www.inco-trust.eu ) and Think-Trust (www.think-trust.eu ).

In Italy, he is scientific member of the international Think tank on telecommunications ThinkTel (www.thinktel.org).

He has several patents in security (firewall, watermarking and protecting CD ROM).

He published recently two books “La sécurité à l’ère numérique” (édition Hermès Lavoisier) and “Le téléphone de demain” (édition Le Pommier).
Carmine Rizzo, (ETSI): ETSI Security Standardization

Carmine Rizzo has worked at ETSI in France since November 2007, where he is the proactive point of reference for Security Standardization activities and he is responsible for the supervision, co-ordination and promotion of ETSI Security Standardization work within and across various Technical Bodies.

He obtained a Degree (Laurea) in Electronic/Telecommunication Engineering in Italy, followed by a Ph.D in Radio Communications in the United Kingdom.

His professional background in the United Kingdom includes experience in the private sector for Nortel Networks as Data Communications Network Engineer, and over five years’ experience in the international organisation ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts), working in an operational environment for the management of IT projects, services and security.

He has gained, and actively maintains, several professional certifications covering broad aspects of technical security and security management, as well as project management, IT audit, control, and service management.
Tony Rutkowski, (VeriSign): Identity Management

Mr. Rutkowski has been a leader and substantial contributor to Identity Management work in the ITU during the past several years - in Study Group 17, in other relevant ITU-T and ITU-D groups, and the ITU High Level Experts Group on Cybersecurity. Outside the ITU, he has been a speaker and major contributor on Identity Management in the U.N. Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDR), in multiple International Organization for Standardization (ISO) technical committees, in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) committees, in the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), the U.S. White House National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), and policy making proceedings of the European Commission and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

He is the Vice-President for Regulatory Affairs and Standards at VeriSign, Inc. - the leading global provider of trusted Identity Management services that successfully implemented the ITU-T X.509 digital identity standard worldwide. In that capacity, he develops, coordinates, files, and articulates VeriSign regulatory and strategic technical interests in governmental and industry forums worldwide, as well as provides regulatory counsel to the company. He is also a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow, at the Georgia Institute of Technology Nunn School where he lectures, and sits on the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) Board of Advisors.

He is an engineer-lawyer who has pursued a 45 year multifaceted career as a highly visible and well-known global enterprise strategist, public official, organization leader, consultant, lecturer, and author in both the Internet and telecom worlds, in the U.S. and internationally. Positions include the private sector (VeriSign, SAIC, General Magic, Sprint International, Horizon House, Pan American Engineering, General Electric, Evening News Association) government (Federal Communications Commission, the International Telecommunication Union, Cape Canaveral City Council), academic (Georgia Tech, Internet Society, MIT, and NY Law School), and consulting as NGI Associates.

His Personal Identity Portal can be found at http://anthony.rutkowski.name
Reinhard Scholl, Deputy to the Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (ITU-T)

Reinhard Scholl is Deputy to the Director of the ITU-T Secretariat (TSB) since September 2002. Previously he has been with Siemens in Munich, Germany and with ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute). He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois, USA.
Daniel Sjöberg, (Vice-Chairman, Telia Sonera)

Since June 2005 Daniel Sjöberg holds the position as Head of Strategy and Business Development

Daniel Sjöberg joined Telia AB’s Internet group in June 1996 where he developed the strategies for International expansion, business development, new ventures and strategic alliances. In September 1998 Daniel started working as Director IP Product Development for Telia North America. Moving back to Sweden 2002 he becomes Head of Technology office responsible for TeliaSonera International Carriers long term Network Strategy.

As Head of Strategy and Business Development, Daniel invented the TeliaSonera Community model which is a customization of the TeliaSonera wholesale portfolio to new customer communities such as Gaming, Media and Mobile.
Heung Youl Youm, (Vice-Chair, ITU-T SG 17)

Heung Youl Youm is a Vice Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 17 and a candidate Chairman of Working Party 2 of ITU-T Study Group 17.

He is a Chairman of the Korea local Group for ITU-T Study Group 17 to the Korea Communications Commission.

He was a Rapporteur for the ITU-T Study Group 17 Question on “Secure Applications Service” since 2005. He was the Project Editor for many approved ITU-T Recommendations, such as ITU-T X.1111(Framework of security technologies for home network), ITU-T X.1034(Guideline on extensible authentication protocol based authentication and key management in a data communication network), X.1151(Guideline on secure password-based authentication protocol with key exchange), etc. He is the Project Editor for many ITU-T draft Recommendations under development such as ITU-T X.iptvsec-1(X.1191), X.usnsec-1, X.iptvsec-3, X.tr-ucc, etc.

He has worked as a professor for the Department of Information Security Engineering of Soonchunhyang University, Korea since 1990.

He has worked as a Project Manager to Information Security for the Ministry of Information and Communication and/or the Institute for Information Technology Advancement since 2006.

He worked for ETRI for 8 years as a Senior Member of Technical Staff since 1982 working on high speed transmission systems.

He has involved in many advisory committees in the area of Information Security to the Korea Communications Commission, the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, and the National Information Service of Korea(Republic of).

He received a Bachelor degree in 1981, a Master degree in 1983, and a Ph.D degree in 1990, all in Electronics Engineering from Hanyang University, Korea.
 

 

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