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| and international IT security problems. Consecom AG is proud of its | and international IT security problems. Consecom AG is proud of its | ||
| team of top-most competent consultants. | team of top-most competent consultants. | ||
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| - | Besides working as a senior consultant for Consecom AG, Dr. Ruf is | ||
| - | lecturer at a Swiss University of Applied Sciences. He teaches | ||
| - | students on computer security. Focusing there on Identity and Access | ||
| - | Management, he conveys the in-depth understanding of the relevance of | ||
| - | IT security to his students. In addition, Dr. Ruf is heavily | ||
| - | involved in academical research at the Swiss Federal Institute of | ||
| - | Technology (ETH) in Zurich -- his alma mater -- where he conducts | ||
| - | master and bachelor theses projects. Moreover, Dr. Ruf is involved in | ||
| - | open source projects where he took over responsibility for components | ||
| - | that make part of every Linux distribution. | ||
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| - | Before founding Consecom AG, Dr. Ruf worked as an employee with a | ||
| - | Zurich-based IT security consultancy as a Senior Security Consultant. | ||
| - | Due to his ability to quickly adapt to changing situations, he was | ||
| - | asked very soon after joining this company not only to take the lead | ||
| - | in managing security focused projects but also to help with business | ||
| - | strategical projects of customers. Besides these senior tasks, he was | ||
| - | the lead technical risk manager carrying out various risk assessments | ||
| - | and general audit mandates for banks, financial institutes, | ||
| - | pharmaceutical and chemical as well governmental institutions. Thanks | ||
| - | to his profound knowledge of in-depth technical details, as well as | ||
| - | his extraordinary conceptual capabilities he was one of the allrounder | ||
| - | that took responsibilities through all phases and tasks of a | ||
| - | consultant's mandate. He still keeps strong ties with that company | ||
| - | and supports them for technical audits and matters. | ||
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| - | For his Ph.D., Lukas Ruf focused on embedded distributed | ||
| - | multi-processor systems with a computer network centric view. His | ||
| - | Ph.D. thesis, titled "Network Services on Service Extensible Routers" | ||
| - | contributed to science by the definition, implementation and | ||
| - | successful validation of a resource allocation algorithm. To | ||
| - | engineering, he contributed by the design and implementation of a | ||
| - | component-oriented middleware for asymmetric multi-processor systems | ||
| - | that provides the real abstraction from communication, time and space. | ||
| - | The glue and really cool thing was that he defined two abstraction | ||
| - | patterns that allowed the linear specification of distributed | ||
| - | resources. One pattern provides the abstraction for the distributed, | ||
| - | asymmetric multi-processor systems, while the other addresses | ||
| - | specification of heavily parallelized applications in a linear and | ||
| - | concise way. | ||
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| - | In addition, he was the system administrator of the lab. He was there | ||
| - | responsible for the administration of the lab's Sun Solaris network | ||
| - | with heterogeneous clients (Sun, Win, Mac, Linux/BSD). Moreover, he | ||
| - | took the lead (well, he was asked to) to run a project that defined | ||
| - | the strategy of the lab regarding its central IT services. | ||
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| - | While working on his Ph.D. thesis as well as during his post-doc | ||
| - | stage, Lukas run his own one-man-show consulting business | ||
| - | ([[http://www.rrc.ch|rrc]]). Lukas' "company" provided expertise on | ||
| - | law-cases where software was the focal point of concerns. Moreover, | ||
| - | besides providing the expertise, risk assessment and security auditing | ||
| - | created the second most important source of income. In addition, he | ||
| - | supported small-and-medium size companies with security as well as | ||
| - | system administration issues for about six years. | ||
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| - | As an undergraduate student, Lukas was working for an IT engineering | ||
| - | consultancy based in Münchenstein, close to Basel, Switzerland. | ||
| - | There he took responsibility as a senior software engineer specialized | ||
| - | on technology as well as networked database systems, and was involved | ||
| - | in internal as well as external apprentice education. There, he | ||
| - | taught apprentices (Informatiklehrlinge) of the whole north western | ||
| - | Switzerland (Nordwest-Schweiz) area on operating systems and network | ||
| - | principles. | ||
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| - | During that time, he developed, implemented and sold in his spare-time | ||
| - | [[http://ubepos.lpr.ch|UbePOS]], a software that supports medical | ||
| - | doctors, educators of young children as well as sociological and | ||
| - | ergonomic therapist with pursuing there examiniation. Although based | ||
| - | on SAA-concepts introduced by character applications with PC/MS-DOS, | ||
| - | this support tool is still sold frequently. | ||