Chief Security Architect
Alcatel


Francois Cosquer is Chief Security Architect for Alcatel North America where he currently coordinates the security effort for Alcatel Strategic Solutions. He has served as acting chair of the ATIS TOPS Council Focus Group on Network Security and was recently appointed Technical Editor for the DRM taskforce of the ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF). He is Advisory Board Member at the Concordia Institute of Information Systems Engineering in Montreal and for the European Security & Dependability Task Force in Bruxels. Francois came to Ottawa in 2001 to lead the Corporate Security Research Center.

Prior to joining Alcatel, he worked in Europe for a number of Research Institutions, Equipment Vendors and Telecom Operators. Francois is author of several international publications and co-author of LNCS book on Advances in Distributed Systems. His 15 years experience covers networking, operating systems, middleware and multimedia applications. He has been a speaker and chair for security sessions at industry events including USTA Telecom, Supercomm, Globecom,VON, Tower Summit, CTIA Wireless and Entertainment. Francois graduated in Electronics and Computing and holds an MSc in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Computer
Engineering.