Secure Application Development
Home faculty program location registration subscribe related past events	Dr. Marijke De Soete holds a Ph.D. in Science (Mathematics) from the University of Ghent and is currently working as an independent consultant. She established her own consultancy company Security4Biz in April 2004. She offers consultancy services on risk management and security for Corporate Governance, business development in ICT security and security aspects of systems and applications based on emerging technologies. Currently her main assignment is with NXP Semiconductors Leuven where she heads a team on system security and DRM. Until the end of 2003 she was holding the position of Vice President Emerging Technologies Product Security with MasterCard International since its merger with Europay. Before she was Director of Payment System Security at Europay from 1995 till 2001. In 1995-1996 she was also visiting professor at Ghent University (Belgium) teaching a course on Cryptography and IT-Security. She still is a member of the International Organisation for Cryptologic Research. In 1989 Dr. De Soete joined Philips-M.B.L.E. in Brussels as Security Adviser. She headed a team responsible for the design and implementation of cryptographic protocols and key management for chip cards with applications in telecommunications, banking and secure office communications. From 1979 till 1988 she was employed at Ghent University and was involved in research in the field of combinatorics and finite geometry, cryptography and IT security. Dr. De Soete has written over 40 articles and is a frequent speaker at international conferences and workshops. She has been active in several standardisation committees in the domain of IT security and chip cards for banking and telecom (ISO, ECBS, EPC, ETSI). She is currently Vice-Chair of ISO/IEC JTC 1 /SC 27, IT technology - Security techniques after having served for 10 years as a Convener of one of its working groups. She was also an editor of several authentication standards produced by that committee (1988 -1995). Since August 2005 she is a member of the Board of Directors of L-Sec, the Leuven Security Excellence Consortium (Belgium). She is regularly involved in the organisation of international conferences and was a reviewer for several journals in this area.

Secure Application Development

Dr. Marijke De Soete holds a Ph.D. in Science (Mathematics) from the University of Ghent and is currently working as an independent consultant. She established her own consultancy company Security4Biz in April 2004. She offers consultancy services on risk management and security for Corporate Governance, business development in ICT security and security aspects of systems and applications based on emerging technologies. Currently her main assignment is with NXP Semiconductors Leuven where she heads a team on system security and DRM.

Until the end of 2003 she was holding the position of Vice President Emerging Technologies Product Security with MasterCard International since its merger with Europay. Before she was Director of Payment System Security at Europay from 1995 till 2001. In 1995-1996 she was also visiting professor at Ghent University (Belgium) teaching a course on Cryptography and IT-Security. She still is a member of the International Organisation for Cryptologic Research. In 1989 Dr. De Soete joined Philips-M.B.L.E. in Brussels as Security Adviser. She headed a team responsible for the design and implementation of cryptographic protocols and key management for chip cards with applications in telecommunications, banking and secure office communications. From 1979 till 1988 she was employed at Ghent University and was involved in research in the field of combinatorics and finite geometry, cryptography and IT security.

Dr. De Soete has written over 40 articles and is a frequent speaker at international conferences and workshops. She has been active in several standardisation committees in the domain of IT security and chip cards for banking and telecom (ISO, ECBS, EPC, ETSI). She is currently Vice-Chair of ISO/IEC JTC 1 /SC 27, IT technology - Security techniques after having served for 10 years as a Convener of one of its working groups. She was also an editor of several authentication standards produced by that committee (1988 -1995). Since August 2005 she is a member of the Board of Directors of L-Sec, the Leuven Security Excellence Consortium (Belgium). She is regularly involved in the organisation of international conferences and was a reviewer for several journals in this area.