Date: July 10-11, 2017
Time: 9:00am-5:00pm
Location: July 10, QNC 0101, July 11, QNC 1201, Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre, University of Waterloo
Please contact Chin Lee to register. The registration deadline is June 6, 2017.
The CryptoWorks21 Standards and Certification Course is a 2-day program focused on the importance of standards and certification when introducing new technologies to the marketplace and the avenues for standardization and certification of quantum-safe cryptographic technologies.
Students will develop an understanding of several components of these topics including:
- Standards
- Relevance
- Importance for deployability
- Competitiveness
- Large-scale adoption
- Compliance organizations and development
Instructors:
- Lily Chen, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Mike Bursell, Red Hat
- Vlad Gheorghiu, University of Waterloo
- Arjan Widlak, United Knowledge
Course Outline:
- Overview of standards
- Case studies
- Aligning standards to business models
- Certification
- Standards and certification for post-quantum cryptography
- “The Sky Is the Limit”, Standardization Simulation Game run by United Knowledge
Bio for Mike Bursell
Chief Security Architect | Red Hat
Mike Bursell joined Red Hat in August 2016, following previous roles at Intel and Citrix working on security, virtualisation and networking. After training in software engineering, he specialised in distributed systems and security, and has worked in architecture and technical strategy for the past few years. His responsibilities at Red Hat include forming security strategy, external and internal visibility and thought leadership.
Mike has been closely involved in the telco market and ETSI NFV since mid-2013, with contributions in the phase I SEC, INF and SWA groups, and is rapporteur for three security work items. He served for two years as the Vice-Chairman for the ETSI NFV Security Working Group, and has also been involved in the OPNFV project. He regularly speaks at industry events in Europe, North America and APAC.
Professional interests include: Linux, Open Source Software, security, distributed systems, blockchain, NFV, SDN, virtualisation (including Linux Containers and hypervisors).
Mike has an MA from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the Open University.