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Heung Youl Youm Chairman, ITU-T Study Group 17, Security \| Professor, Department of Information Security Engineering, Soonchunhyang University, South Korea He is Chairman of ITU-T SG17 (Security). He is working as a professor for the Department of Information Security Engineering of the Soonchunhyang University, Korea from September 1990. He is currently the Director of SCH Cybersecurity Research Centre from Dec. 2013. He began participating in ITU-T SG 17 in 2003 and has actively contributed to the work of SG17 as a core member of security experts. He was an associate Rapporteur of SG 17 Question 10/17 from 2003 to 2004. For the Study Period (2005 – 2008), he served as a Rapporteur of Question 9/17. He was a Vice Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 17 from 2009 to 2016. He was a Chairman of Working Party 2 (Application Security) of SG17 for the Study Period (2009–2012) and was a Chairman of Working Party 3 (Identity management and cloud computing security) of SG17 for the Study Period (2013–2016). He has been a Project Editor for many approved ITU-T Recommendations or agreed Supplements in DLT security, authentication/application protocols, de-identification techniques, USN/IoT security, 5G security, and cybersecurity. He is a Commissioner for the Korea Personal Information Protection Commission, a member of advisory committee for the Korea national security office for the Blue House, a Chairman for the ISMS/PIMS certification committee in Korea since 2007, and a Board director for Korea Information/Security agency. He was a president of KIISC (Korea Institute on information security and cryptology) in 2011 and is an emeritus president of KIISC. He had worked for ETRI as a senior research engineer from 1982 to 1990. He had been involved in developing high speed transmission system. He had been involved in many (advisory or self-performance evaluation) committees for the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) from 2008 to 2016, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) from 2013 to 2017, the Ministry of Industry and Energy (MoTIE) from 2015 to 2017. He had been involved in self-performance evaluation) committees for the Ministry of Science and ICT since 2017. He had been the chairman for the committee on information security in the PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games from January 2015 to May 2018. 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.
Abbie Barbir ITU-T Study Group 17 Q10 Co-rapporteur \| Senior Security Advisor, CVS Health, United States Abbie Barbir serves as a Senior Security Advisor in the areas of identity management, mobile devices, and authentication at CVS Health Global Information Security. Barbir has extensive experience in identity and access management. He has worked with many standard organizations on developing next-generation authentication technologies. Currently, he represents CVS on the FIDO Board of Directors. Barbir holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Louisiana State University. In his more than 25 years in the software and security industry, he has been a Professor of Computer Science, an Application Developer, Data Compression and Encryption Inventor, Systems Architect, Security Architect, Engineering Manager, Consultant, Author and Inventor of numerous security algorithms and articles.
Herbert Bertine ITU-T Study Group Former Chair Herbert Bertine is a former chairman of ITU-T Study Group 17 and previously Study Group 7, having served from 1993 to 2008. 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. 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.
Juhee Ki ITU-T Study Group 17 Q1 Co-Rapporteur \| Senior Researcher, Global Cooperation and Standardization R&D Team, IITP, South Korea Dr. Juhee Ki is a principal researcher at IITP (Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation). She has worked for IITP from 2003, which was established in 1999 as a government organization under the Ministry of Science and ICT to support R&D policy-making, R&D planning & evaluation, and expanding R&D results. She is responsible for ICT Standardization in IITP. She received her Ph. D. degree in 2013 from Korea University, Korea. She had been a visiting scholar at University of California, Davis from August 2014 to July 2016. Her main interests include Public Key Cryptography Application, Privacy & Anonymity and Authentication in the cybersecurity field. She is the Co-Rapporteur of Question 1 of ITU-T Study Group 17 since 2021.
Lía Molinari Study Group 17 Vice-chair \| WP3/17 Vice-chair \| Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina Since 1988, Professor at National University of La Plata (UNLP), Argentina, in the subjects Operating Systems, IT Governance and Auditing, and Security Management. Member of the Cybersecurity Team of the UNLP. She has a Phd in Administration Science and a Master in Data Networks. She is currently Director of Information Security in the Federal Administration of Public Revenue (Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos, AFIP). She was coordinator of CERT.ar, the national governmental CERT (December 2021 – March 2022). She was Director of On line Government of the Provincial Government of Buenos Aires, in charge of digital interaction with citizens in pandemic situation (December 2019 – November 2021). She was Vicedean of the Computer Science School, UNLP (2014-2018). Member of Argentine Standardization and Certification Institute (IRAM), the only representative of ISO for Argentina. She has the following professional certifications: Certified ISO/IEC 27032 Lead Cybersecurity Manager. Certified Lider Auditor IRCA de ISO 27001. Certified CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor). ISACA. Until 2019. Certified CISM (Certified Information Security Management). ISACA. Until 2019.
Jae Hoon Nah ITU-T Study Group 17 WP4 Chair & Rapporteur \| Special Fellow Researcher, Security Research Laboratory, ETRI, South Korea He began participating in ITU-T SG 17 in 2005. For the two Study Periods (2009 – 2012, 2013-2016), he served as a Rapporteur of Question 7/17 (Secure Application Services). He has been a Project Editor or Co-editor for 8 approved ITU-T Recommendations or agreed Supplements in the area of P2P (Peer-to-Peer) security, IPTV security, Web security, authentication protocol. From 1987, he has worked as a researcher for ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute), Republic of Korea. He is currently a special fellow researcher of Security Research Laboratory in ETRI. He had developed wired/mobile call processing software of a digital switching machine (TDX-10 ISDN, TDX-ATM) from 1987 to 2000. And He had developed security protocols and standards of secure P2P services, scalable code of IPTV security, Mashup Web security and enhanced attribute-aggregated authentication from 2001.
Zhaoji Lin Director, ICT Security Standardization, ZTE Corporation, China Zhaoji Lin is the vice-chairman of ITU-T SG17 and co-chairman of Working Party of ITU-T SG17. He works as an ICT Security Standardization director in the technical planning and development unit at ZTE Corporation. He was also active in many international and regional standards organizations, including Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) in the areas of device management, digital rights management, identity management, IoT security and cloud computing security and 5G securit. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of many ITU-T recommendations, OMA specifications and CCSA standards.
Heung Ryong OH ITU-T Study Group 17 Q2 Co-rapporteur \| Chief Researcher, Standardization Division, TTA (Telecommunications Technology Association), South Korea He is working as a researcher for the standardization division of the TTA, Korea from February 2004. He is responsible for domestic standards for information security in TTA. He began participating in ITU-T SG17 in 2004 and has served an associate rapporteur of Q2 from 2009 to 2016, a co-rapporteur of Q2 in ITU-T SG17 since 2017. He received a Bachelor degree in 2002 (Electronics Engineering), a Master degree in 2004, and a Ph.D. degree in 2018, all in Information security from Soonchunhyang University, South Korea.
Chang-Oh Kim ITU-T Study Group 17 Q4 Associate rapporteur \| CISO&CPO, Security Department, Yanolja, South Korea Dr. Chang-Oh Kim is a head of the security department as CISO(Chief Information Security Officer) and CPO(Chief Privacy Officer) in Yanolja. Yanolja is Asia’s best full-stack hospitality company, supplying an integrated hotel platform by effectively utilizing IoT and AI technologies and the fastest growing No.1 OTA travel related companies in South Korea. Also, he has worked in IT company as NCSoft, Coupang, Kakao mobility and others since 2001. He received Ph. D. degree in 2021 from Korea University, Korea. He has been an editor for 7 approved and 1 working ITU-T Recommendations in the area of information security management and security services, Cybersecurity and countering spam, Intelligent transport system (ITS) security, Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) security and Secure application services. He has served as an Associate rapporteur of Question 4 (Cybersecurity and countering spam) of ITU-T Study Group 17 since 2017.
Erik Andersen Independent consultant, Andersen's 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). Became chair of the Danish committee for Open Systems Interconnection standardization and participated in numerous international meetings within ISO/IEC and was quite active. After leaving IBM, continued to work for international standardization in European standardization arena. Was during four study periods rapporteur for the question, currently Question 11, that is responsible for the ITU.T X.500 series, which is collaborative work with ISO/IEC, which has published the series as ISO/IEC 9594-all parts. Has for 12 years or more been the project editor for the ITU-T X.500 series, also on the ISO/IEC side. Rec. ITU-T X.509, alias ISO/IEC 9594-8, is part of ITU-T X.500 series. X.509 being the framework for public-key infrastructure is an extremely important specification.
Anthony Michael Rutkowski CEO, Netmagic Associates LLC Tony Rutkowski is an engineer-lawyer with an extremely diverse, sixty-year professional career spanning the telecommunication, mobile, internet, satellite, and broadcasting fields in the U.S. and Europe where he has shaped major technical and legal developments in senior governmental, company, and academic leadership positions at international, national, and local levels. Over the past two decades, his roles have been focused on significant international and U.S. Federal network security initiatives relating to cybersecurity, infrastructure protection, extraterritorial security law, and lawful interception for new networks and services. Currently, as the CEO of Netmagic Associates LLC, he provides technical and regulatory analytical and consulting services to a few entities that include the Center for Internet Security. He engages actively in a broad array of governmental and industry security forums – largely internationally. Over the past several years, he has assumed rapporteur responsibilities in the ETSI Cyber Security Technical Committee for a number of major specifications and reports and served as an ENISA consultant. Over the past 20 years, he assumed rapporteur responsibilities in the ETSI Lawful Interception Technical Committee and chair of the OASIS LegalXML LI Technical Committee. He continues to serve as the liaison among multiple international network security bodies. He also writes extensively in multiple professional publications and speaks on network security related developments and history.
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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