Biographies

Ray Sung Joon Ahn is a Marketing Director of Sparrow Co., Ltd. He has over 7 years of experience in application security testing solutions and 15 years of experience in B2B and B2C solutions, and has held senior positions at several leading companies, including Sparrow Co., Ltd., Fasoo, and Namo Interactive. In his current role as Director of Marketing at Sparrow Co., Ltd., he is responsible for the company's overall business global operations, including sales, marketing, and business development. ​

​Dr. Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran is an Advisory Researcher with Lenovo, Motorola Mobility, Germany. She is a delegate and key contributor to 3GPP, NGMN, ETSI, and NextG Alliance working groups. She has 7 plus years of Telecommunication technology standardization experience. In her current role, she takes care of research and development of 5G advanced security features, contributes to ICT standardization and specifications. She holds significant number of patents in 5G system, authored several whitepapers (especially NGMN, ETSI), also worked as a lead editor for various 6G topics in NextG white papers. She also takes the role of Rapporteur for 3GPP Release-18 TR33.894, ‘Study on applicability of the Zero Trust Security principles in mobile networks’. She is a Technical Editor in IEEE Network and Guest Editor in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics - Special Issue. She also serves as the Standardization and International Cooperation Manager (SICM) for the Horizon Europe SNS Project - RIGOUROUS. ​

Francesco Chiarini has 18+ years experience in cybersecurity and he is the founder of the prestigious ISSA.org Cyber Resilience specialised community with over 1800 associates across the globe. In his day-to-day, he leads cyber resilience for a major financial institution with the aim to continuously assess and evolve the organisations’ defensive posture to sustainably stay ahead of the cyber threat. Francesco has received the global innovation award from the USA Consumer Brands Association in 2018 and is the 2021 volunteer of the year from ISSA.org. Sought-after speaker who presented at global audiences including recent talks at MITRE, FS-ISAC, ISACA, ISSA, Microsoft, London Stock Exchang​e, FIRST, Asia Pacific CERT, Africa CERT and many others. In 2022, Francesco has co-authored multiple recognized research papers such as the World Economic Forum “The Cyber Resilience Index: Advancing Organizational Cyber Resilience”, the ASIFMA “Data Vaulting considerations for improving data recovery” and the Eurocontrol “Incident Timing Metrics, Reporting Cyber Risk to Boards. Francesco promotes and demystifies across all industries and communities the concepts of cyber resilience and threat-informed defense – proudly SABSA and TOGAF certified. From the beginning of his career, Francesco has been successful in providing international pedigree enterprises with the abilities to anticipate, withstand, respond and recover from multi-faceted attacks from advanced cyber adversaries. He had the privilege to build a best-in-class cyber resilience program vetted -among others- by experts of the US CISA cyber resilience task force. In this capacity, Francesco has coined the concept of “high value target” and developed a methodology to identify assets’ value from an adversarial standpoint. ​

Cassie Crossley, Vice President, Supply Chain Security in the global Cybersecurity & Product Security Office at Schneider Electric, is an experienced cybersecurity technology executive in Information Technology and Product Development. She has many years of business and technical leadership experience in supply chain security, cybersecurity, product/application security, software/firmware development, program management, and data privacy. Ms. Crossley has designed frameworks and operating models for end-to-end security in software development lifecycles, third party risk management, cybersecurity governance, and cybersecurity initiatives. She is a member of the CISA SBOM working groups and presents frequently on the topic of SBOMs and Supply Chain Security. ​

Dr. Allan Friedman is a Senior Advisor and Strategist at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the US Government. He coordinates the global cross-sector community efforts around software bill of materials (SBOM), and works to advance its adoption inside the US government. He was previously the Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives at NTIA, leading pioneering work on cybersecurity, including running the first public government-led collaboration on coordinated vulnerability disclosure. Prior to joining the Federal government, Friedman spent over a decade as a noted information security and technology policy scholar at Harvard's Computer Science department, the Brookings Institution, and George Washington University's Engineering School. He is the co-author of the popular text "Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know," has a degree in computer science from Swarthmore College and a PhD in public policy from Harvard University. ​

Ms. Zhiyuan Hu got her Ph.D. in computer science in 2002. She worked as a security researcher at Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd. from 2002 to 2021. Since July 2021, she has worked as Director of Security Research at vivo Mobile Communication Co. Ltd. Dr. Hu was nominated for Vice-Chair of WP2/SG17 (5G, IoT& ITS security) (2021-present), Co-Rapporteur of Q2/SG17 (Security architecture and network security) (2017-present) and Associate Rapporteur of Q2/SG17 (2015-2016). She acted as Chair of OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) security working group (2009-2014) and Vice-Chair of OMA security working group (2007-2008). She also acted as Vice-Chair of CCSA (China Communications Standards Association) TC5 WG5 (Wireless communication security) (2008-2021). She completed to publish more than 20 specifications. ​​ ​

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.

Mr​. Arnaud Taddei is a Global Security Strategist at Symantec by Broadcom. He is an executive advisor on Security Strategy and Transformation for the top 150 Symantec customers. As part of his mission, M. Taddei participates in specific Standardization Defining Organizations and in particular, was elected ITU-T SG17 Vice Chairman representing the UK and works at the IETF. He started his career in 1993 at the famous CERN IT Division in Geneva which created the World Wide Web and where he led the team responsible for Communication, Authentication and Authorization. In 2000, he joined Sun Microsystems where he became one of the 100 elected global Principle Engineers. In 2007 he joined Symantec and hold Chief Architect roles up to Director of Research as direct report to Dr. Hugh Thompson, Symantec’s CTO and actual RSA Conference Chairman. Graduated as Telecom Engineer from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Télécommunication de Bretagne, France, M. Taddei owns a DEA with INRIA, which led him to the Institute of Control Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow in 1992.

​S​ounil Y​​u​ ​​​

Author, Cyber Defense Matrix
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