Norbert Pohlmann (born 20 March 1960) is a

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...

and a professor at the . He is also chairman of the board of the IT security association

TeleTrusT TeleTrusT, officially the IT Security Association (), is a German association for IT security, based in Berlin. Founded in 1989, it is a German and international competence network for IT security, with the purpose of increasing trust in informatio ...

Career

Born in

Ratingen Ratingen ( li, Rotinge) is a town in the district of Mettmann in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It lies in the northwestern part of Berg about 12 km northeast of Düsseldorf. Administration With a communal reform of 1975 the independent mu ...

, Pohlmann studied

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

from 1981 to 1985, specialising in computer science. He wrote his

doctoral thesis A thesis ( : theses), or dissertation (abbreviated diss.), is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.International Standard ISO 7144: ...

on "Possibilities and Limitations of Firewall Systems". He was managing director at KryptoKom, a company for information security and communication technology, from 1988 to 1999. After a merger with Utimaco Safeware AG, he was a member of the company's board from 1999 to 2003. Since 2003, Pohlmann has been professor in the computer science department for distributed systems and information security, and director of the institute for internet security, at the , a university of applied science. Pohlmann was one of the founders of the IT security association

, which has established reliable conditions for trustworthy application of information and communication technologies. He has been member of the board since 1994, and chairman of the board since April 1998. Pohlmann was one of the initiators of the Information Security Solutions Europe (ISSE) and chairman of the ISSE program committee of the ISSE conference. He is also a member of the board of eco (Association of the Internet Industry) as well as a member of the academic council of the GDD, the German association for data protection and data security. He was a member of the permanent stakeholders' group of the

ENISA The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity – self-designation ENISA from the abbreviation of its original name – is an agency of the European Union. It is fully operational since September 1, 2005. The Agency is located in Athens, Greece an ...

(European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) from 2005 to 2010. In the summer term 2013, Pohlmann was a visiting professor at Stanford University.

Awards

* Rudolf-Thoma Prize of VDE (Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technology) for the best final grade in the graduation year 1985 * 1997 City of

Aachen Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...

's Prize for Innovation and Technology for his scientific and entrepreneurial performance. * 2011 Professor of the Year in the category "Engineering / Informatics", awarded by the German students magazine Unicum.

Publications

* ''Firewall Architecture for the Enterprise'', John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, USA, 2002 . * ''Firewall-Systeme - Sicherheit für Internet und Intranet'', E-Mail-Security, Virtual Private Network, Intrusion Detection System, Personal Firewalls'' MITP-Verlag, Bonn 2003 . * ''Virtual Private Network (VPN)'' MITP-Verlag, Bonn 2003 * ''Der IT-Sicherheitsleitfaden'' MITP-Verlag, Bonn 2006 * ''Sicher im Internet: Tipps und Tricks für das digitale Leben'' orell füssli Verlag, Zürich 2010

References

External links

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CV Norbert Pohlmann

Books by Pohlmann as PDF

Institute for Internet Security
(Institut für Internetsicherheit an der Westfälischen Hochschule) {{DEFAULTSORT:Pohlmann, Norbert German computer scientists People from Ratingen 1960 births Living people