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Mike Small • Victor Ralevich • Sead Muftic

Mike Small, Director Security Management Strategy CA, UK

Mike Small is director of security management strategy at CA. In this role he is responsible for defining and communicating the technical strategy for the future of CA’s security management software product line within Europe, Middle East and Africa.  With over 35 years in the information technology industry Mike’s experience covers the leading edge of information systems technology and exploitation:

Mike began his career with International Computers Limited, where he worked for many years as the leader and architect for a number of leading edge information technology development projects ranging from system software to artificial intelligence. He has worked for CA since 1994.  

Mike developed CA’s identity and access management strategy and, prior to taking on his current role, Mike was vice-president R&D. He was responsible for around 60 staff (in laboratories in France, USA and Australia) engaged in the development of CA’s identity and access management products.  

Mike is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Member of the Institute of Electronic Engineers. He has a first class honours degree in engineering from Brunel University.  He has spoken at numerous conferences in Europe and the US on a range of information systems security topics.

Victor Ralevich, PhD, CISSP, Sheridan Institute, Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Dr Victor Ralevich has more than fifteen years of experience in IS security research, development and consulting. His primary interest is in issues of privacy protection, applied cryptography, and PKI development and implementation. He is creator and program coordinator of the Bachelor degree program in Applied Information Sciences (Information Systems Security) at Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning.

Dr Ralevich has published 14 papers and 2 textbooks in Mathematics, taught variety of Mathematics and Computer Science courses at university and college level in Europe, U.S. and Canada. He also participated in research projects in various areas such as natural resources management, applied cryptography, security protocols, and PKI implementation in data storage and transfer.

Sead Muftic,Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Sead Muftic is working in the area of computer security for more than 30 years now. Dr. Muftic began his computer carrier with IBM in 1971 as systems engineer. In 1973 he started his Ph.D. studies and completed them in 1976 at The Ohio State University (Columbus, USA). In 1974 he received his M.Sc. degree and in 1976 he received the Ph.D degree in computer security. He is actively working in the area of computer security since 1974 and therefore has more than 25 years of experience in that field.

Dr. Muftic was the Coordinator and the main author of the international research project "COST-11: Security Mechanisms for Computer Networks", sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities, with about 20 participants from almost all countries of the EU. He was also participating in the EU/ESPRIT SYSMAN project working on security in distributed systems, as the coordinator of the DSV Team and in the EU/ACTS GAIA (Generic Architecture for Information Availability) project. He was also involved in the EU/ESPRIT ICE-CAR (Infrastructure for Certification in Europe) project, US Social Security Administration "Channel Convergence" project, and US Governmet Bridge CA project. From 2004 – 2006 he was the member of the Permannet Stakeholders Advisory Group of ENISA (European Networks and Information Security Agency).He was consultant to VISA, EU, The World Bank, US Federal Government, SIEMENS Corporation, etc.

Dr. Muftic is the professor of computer security at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV), Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He is responsible for the specialized Security Laboratory at the Department and also for the Master’s specialization program in computer security. He is currently also research professor of computer security and secure E-commerce at The George Washington University (in Washington, DC, USA) and research professor at the Michigan Technical University (USA). Dr. Muftic is the author of three international books in the area of computer security and more than 50 research and scientific papers, published in research journals or presented at international conferences.