Philippe Langlois is a founder and Senior Security Consultant for Telecom Security Task Force, a research and consultancy outfit. He founded and led technical teams in several security companies (Qualys, WaveSecurity, INTRINsec) as well as security research teams (Solsoft, TSTF). He founded Qualys in 1999 and led the R&D for this world-leading vulnerability assessment service. He founded Intrinsec, a pioneering network security company in 1995, as well as Worldnet, France's first public Internet service provider, in 1993. He has proven expertise in network security, from Internet to less well known networks - X25 and other legacy systems mostly used in banking, travel and finance. Philippe was also lead designer for Payline, one of the first e-commerce payment gateways on Internet. He has written and translated security books, including some of the earliest references in the field of computer security, and has been giving speeches on network security since 1995 (RSA, COMDEX, Interop). Philippe Langlois is a regular contributor of french-speaking security portal vulnerabilite.com. and a writer for ITaudit, the magazine of the International Association of Internal Auditors. |