August 23, 2016: Invited Speaker Seminar: NFV Security Challenges

Dr. Francois Cosquer
CTO, Security for Applications and Analytics
Nokia

Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 4:30 pm
Room EV002.184

Abstract

The telecom industry is moving towards Network Function Virtualization in search of significant efficiency gain through large scale adoption of commoditized resources, sharing/pooling and overall resources usage optimization.  Part of achieving this promise, the NFV model needs to ensure strong security.  After an introduction to NFV and its benefits, the informal talk will present a number of areas which are currently identified as challenges when de-risking migration from legacy to NFV environments.  The objective is to maintain a dashboard with top risks and high priority issues, both from a business, and a research perspective.

Biography

Dr. Francois Cosquer is currently CTO Security for Applications and Analytics at Nokia, with particular focus on NFV security.  In close collaboration with elite customers, his responsibilities cover defining guidelines and best practices for end to end solutions, including supporting security R&D lifecycle from security requirements, to security testing and validation.  He also supports audits, incidents response, and root cause analysis activities.  In collaboration with Bell Labs Research, he develops technical direction, provides design and architecture expertise to end to end solutions.  Francois graduated in Electronics and Computing, and holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science, and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering.  He currently serves as Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University, Montreal.