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Marc Sel

I specialise in ICT security as free-lancer. I am interested in the technical, the organisational/management and the legal perspective on ICT security. I perform in-depth reviews, assist with the selection of solutions, and perform implementations. Areas I worked in include authorisations and access control, biometric recognition, network security, PKI, smartcards, as well as information security organisation legislation and policies, standards and guidelines.

I obtained degrees from

Royal Holloway, University Of London Egham, UK

PhD, 2021 on automating interpretations of electronic trust (Supervisor: Professor Chris Mitchell)
MSc, 2002, which received the David Lindsey Memorial price of the British Computer Society for best security thesis of 2002

Brussels Free University, MSc in ICT (Brussels, Belgium, 1984)
Technicum North Antwerp, Graduate in Telecommunication and Microprocessors (Antwerp, Belgium - 1980)

In 2023 I combined post-doc research at COSIC with free-lance work. Prior to being self-employed I worked for

PricewaterhouseCoopers, in roles from consultant to director, from 1989 to 2019

In this period I obtained CISA (1993), CISM (2004) and CGEIT (2008) certifications from ISACA, and I was accredited 'Lead Auditor' for ISO/IEC 27001.

Esso, as a systems programmer on IBM mainframes and as a technical analyst
Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company, developing and delivering training on digital telephony
Texas Instruments, as Internal Sales Engineer in the Brussels semiconductor department

Here is information on lectures, presentations and seminars, my expertise, some of my favourite books and homebrewn music .

Regarding publications:

Here is my Linkedin profile.

I welcome emails at marc at marcsel dot eu.

Updated: August 21, 2022