eMISA Faculty

Education:
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, 1992
B.S., Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1981
 
Research Interests:
Portable device (PDA, smart phone) intrusion detection, incident response techniques, computer and network security techniques

Dr. Bernhard M. Hämmerli studied electrical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, where he received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 1983 and 1988, respectively. He worked with IBM (developing communication systems) with Swissair (network strategies) and with UB.S. (communication and security projects) before he was elected as a professor at the Applied University Lucerne in 1992.

Dr. Hämmerli has taught micro processors, languages (Modula, C, C++) and software engineering. Today, he teaches communications and networks as well as information security. He created and managed a class in informatics (92-99), a privacy course (97-01), an executive master program in IT-Security (98-01) with an extensive hands-on lab, a regional Cisco Academy for CCNA degree (from 98) and CCNP (from 02) respectively. He is president of "FGSec The Information Security Society Switzerland" (www.fgsec.ch), scientific consultant for "Stiftung Infosurance" (www.infosurance.ch) and works as a expert in various commissions, especially for the building up of the Swiss Information Sharing centre MELANI. Furthermore he's a member of the Swiss Informaticians Society (SI) and the IEEE Computer Society. He is editor of a German security and privacy journal and the European CIIP newsletter www.ci2rco.org.

Thomas Kohler

Information Risk Control,
UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Banking
Thomas Kohler studied Information Systems Management and is still an Alumno of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

He worked with various hardware and system software vendors as a Senior Consultant. During this phase, he was the Account Manager for large firms such as e.g. Novartis for their host-based database management.

In 1987, Th. Kohler has joined UBS (Finance and Banking) and started the IT Audit Department of the global Wealth Management division of which he was subsequently the Head for the following twelve years. After this period, he joined the Credit Risk Control function to get more insights of the Banking Business. Shortly after this phase, he was nominated to start the Operational Risk Control and subsequently the Information Risk Control function including Business Continuity Management. Meanwhile, Th. Kohler has 22 years of experience in Banking, Finance, ICT audit and IT & Information Risk Control with global UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Banking.

Until 2008, Th. Kohler was a board member of "FGSec The Information Security Society Switzerland" (www.fgsec.ch) and he still is a member of the SI "Swiss Informaticians Society" (www.s-i.ch).

Th. Kohler is a lecturer at the University of Applied Science at Lucerne and at various security conferences in Switzerland and in Europe.

Stephen D. Wolthusen

Education:
2003 Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.), summa cum laude
Technische Universit¨at Darmstadt (Darmstadt University of Technology),
Fachbereich Informatik (Computer Science department).
Thesis: “A Model-Independent Security Architecture for Distributed Heterogeneous Systems”

1993 – 1999 Diplom-Informatiker (TU) (approx. equiv. M.Sc.)
Technische Universit¨at Darmstadt (Darmstadt University of Technology),
Fachbereich Informatik (Computer Science department).

Research Interests:
Information assurance and security, applied combinatorics and graph theory, network and distributed systems security and models for critical infrastructure protection

Pravir Chandra

Pravir Chandra is Director of Strategic Services at Fortify Software and works with clients on software security assurance programs.

Pravir is recognized for his expertise in software security, code analysis, and his ability to strategically apply technical knowledge.

Prior to Fortify, he was a Principal Consultant affiliated with Cigital and led large software security programs at Fortune 500 companies.  Pravir Co-Founded Secure Software, Inc. and was Chief Security Architect prior to its acquisition by Fortify.  He recently created and led the Open Software Assurance Maturity Model (OpenSAMM) project with the OWASP Foundation, leads the OWASP CLASP project, and also serves as member of the OWASP Global Projects Committee. Pravir is author of the book Network Security with OpenSSL.

J. M. Voas

Jeffrey Voas is Director of Systems Assurance at SAIC and is an SAIC Technical Fellow. Before joining SAIC, Voas was the Chief Scientist and Co-founder of Cigital.  He was the IEEE Reliability Society President for 2003-2005, and serves on the IEEE Computer Society’s Board of Governors. He co-authored two John Wiley books and is currently an Associate Editor-In-Chief of IEEE’s IT Professional magazine. He was the IEEE Reliability Engineer of the Year in 2000.  He holds two U.S. patents (#6,862,696 and #7,024,592), and has published over 160 refereed publications.

Voas’s interests are in various aspects of trust, including software testing, reliability, safety, standards, fault tolerance and certification.  Finally, he has spent much of the last 18 years in business development and mentoring.

Voas received his undergraduate degree in computer engineering from Tulane University in 1985, and received his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the College of William and Mary in 1990.  Voas performed a two-year post-doc for the National Research Council between 1990 and 1992 at NASA’s Langley Research Center.