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David Basin David Basin is a full professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1989 and his Habilitation in Computer Science from the University of Saarbrucken in 1996. From 1997–2002 he held the chair of Software Engineering at the University of Freiburg in Germany. His research areas are Information Security and Software Engineering. He is the founding director of the ZISC, the Zurich Information Security Center, which he leads since 2003. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals including IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing and Acta Informatica. He is Editor-in-Chief (together with Ueli Maurer) of Springer-Verlag's book series in Information Security and Cryptography. He serves on various management and scientific advisory boards and has consulted extensively for IT companies and government organizations.



Ueli Maurer Ueli Maurer is a full professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich in 1990. From 1990–1991 he was a DIMACS post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Princeton University. His research interests include the theory and applications of cryptography and information security. Currently he is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cryptology, and Editor-in-Chief (with David Basin) of Springer Verlag's book series in Information Security and Cryptography. Maurer holds several patents for cryptographic systems. He serves on several management and scientific advisory boards, has consulted extensively for the financial industry, the IT industry, and government organisations, and has co-founded the Zurich-based security-software company Visonys AG. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IACR.

  
 

Torsten Lodderstedt is a Principal Consultant and IT Architect with Syracom Consulting AG in Germany. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Freiburg in Germany in 2004. His areas of expertise are information security, software engineering methods and tools, and software architectures. Since 1996 he has helped customers in various sectors (e.g. government, finance, railway, telecommuni-cation) to build large-scale, security-critical IT systems.

 
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