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Biographies

Erik Anderson
Editor of ITU-T X.509 | Independent Consultant, Andersen, L-Service, Denmark

Erik Andersen was employed by IBM for 27 years and was in the early 1980th appointed by IBM to be the IBM representative in Danish Standards (OSI). After leaving IBM, continue to be active in international and European standardization. Was during 16 years, the chair for the group responsible for the ITU.T X.500 series. Has for 17 years or more been the project editor for the ITU-T X.500 series, which includes ITU-T X.509. Is also project editor for three new part of the X.500 series, ITU-T X.510, ITU-T X.508 and the work on interconnecting PKI domains using blockchain.

Hoyt L Kesterson II
Senior Security & Risk Architect, CNC Consulting

Hoyt L Kesterson II is a Security & Risk Architect with CNC Consulting. He has more than 40 years of experience in information security. For 21 years he chaired the international standards group that created the X.509 public-key certificate, a fundamental component in digital signature and securing web transactions. He is a co-chair and founding member of the ABA's Information Security Committee. He is a testifying expert. He holds the CISSP and CISA certifications. He has three articles published in The SciTech Lawyer—What's Quantum Computing Got to Do with It? in the Spring 2022 issue; Cryptocurrency: A Need for Integrity in the Summer 2023 issue; and The Synergy of SciTech and the RSA Conference, co-authored with Ruth Hill Bro, in the Fall 2024 issue.

Stiepan Kovac
QRC Eurosmart SA, Luxembourg

Mr. Kovac, CEO of the QRC group of companies (Quantum Resistant Cryptography), sparked ISO/IEC JTC1 SC27 18033-2 Amd2 with the goal to add « post quantum » ciphers to that standard, likewise is the editor of ITU-T X.1197 Amd1 (2019), the first ever comprehensive quantum resistant cryptography recommendation, followed by X.1811 which provides it with a good practice for use in 5G networks and H.551 which extends its recommended use to vehicular multimedia. He is also the main driving force of European cryptography standardization with DIN SPEC 4997 as foundational work, soon to become an EN, likewise a renowned expert in US national security and defense circles on the question of qrc as a field and how to make it secure. He’s also an author in the SC27 journal, on the subject of "how to make cryptographic standards secure in practice.”

Xiaoya Yang

ITU-T Study Group 17 Counselor

Xiaoya Yang serves as the Counselor of ITU-T Study Group 17 ‘security’ since 2017. With 20+ years of professional experience in telecommunication regulation, legislation and international standardization and coordination, she was the Head of the WTSA Programmes Division in the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-TSB) from 2010 to 2016, Co-counsellor of ITU-T Study Group 2 on 'Operational aspects of service provision and telecommunications management' and Study Group 3 on 'Tariff and accounting principles including related telecommunication economic and policy issues' from 2009 to 2010; Counselor of ITU-T Study Group 17 on 'Telecommunication security' from 2007 to 2008; and Workshop Project Coordinator from 2004 to 2006. Before joining ITU, she worked in the Ministry of Information Industry of China from 1998 to 2004. There she was the Division Director responsible for regulation of Internet and information security. From 1997 to 1998 she worked in China Telecom as a network engineer and service manager in their Internet service department. She has a M.S. in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, China and a MBA from Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

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