20^th escar Europe - The World's Leading Automotive Cyber Security Conference

Jan Stölting is a senior manager & consultant at KPMG in Stuttgart with more than 10 years of experience in cybersecurity advisory. Jan supports KPMG’s clients in organisational as well as technical information security topics and has gathered broad international project experience in Europe, North America and Asia. His core focus topics are security transformations, establishing security management systems and building cyber defense. He is responsible in KPMG for Automotive Cyber Security Management Systems following UN R155, ISO/SAE 21434 and similar frameworks.

Mesih Olumee received his master's degree in Mathematics and Cryptography in 2018 at the Technical University Darmstadt. In 2019 he started working for ESCRYPT GmbH were he was working in a number of automotive and IoT projects as a security consultant and security engineer. With his expert knowledge in post-quantum cryptography, he has joined the funded project FLOQI that pursues the development of a post-quantum PKI.

After studying Computer Science and finishing his PhD at the University of Tuebingen, Dr. Sebastian Burg started working as Security Consultant at ESCRYPT GmbH in 2019, which now is part of ETAS GmbH. He consults embedded automotive projects in all matters security related and is an expert for the topic of Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA).

Tobias Brennich received his master degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in 2015 at the Technical University Munich. In 2016 he started working at ESCRYPT in Munich where he successfully participated in various automotive projects both as security consultant and as security tester. Since 2018 he represents ESCRYPT in the research project SecForCARs where he is responsible for the coordination of ESCRYPT's contributions to the project and the exchange with the project partners from academia and the automotive industry.

Efstathia Katsigianni is working as an IT Security consultant at ESCRYPT GmbH in Berlin. In the last two years, she has worked in different IT security projects in the automotive sector and since December 2019 she has been working on a funded project regarding the creation of a post quantum PKI, also leading the project inside ESCRYPT. In 2018 Efstathia obtained a doctoral degree in mathematics, specifically in the area of arithmetic geometry.

Moritz Minzlaff is a senior manager & consultant at ESCRYPT in Berlin. He has more than a decade of experience in cybersecurity. Moritz focuses on advancing his clients' organizational and technological cybermaturity following UNECE WP.29 and similar frameworks. He has successfully worked with automotive OEMs and suppliers from Asia, Europe, and North America. Among others, he introduced a new tuning protection PKI at a global top 5 supplier. He also co-developed and applied a joint safety & security certification. In 2013, Moritz obtained a PhD for his research in curve cryptography.

Dr.-Ing. Ferdinand Brasser is Head of Research at SANCTUARY. Previously, he conducted research at the TU Darmstadt and the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Collaborative Autonomous Resilient Systems (ICRI-CARS). During this time, Mr. Brasser conducted research on security architectures (Trusted Execution Environments) and security protocols (Remote Attestation). During his work at TU Darmstadt, Mr. Brasser published numerous scientific papers at the most renowned conferences in the fields of IT security and hardware design (e.g., USENIX Security, NDSS, ACM CCS, ACM/IEEE DAC). Previously, Mr. Brasser obtained his Master's degree with specialization in IT Security at the TU Darmstadt in 2013.

Dr.-Ing. Emmanuel Stapf is Head of Development at SANCTUARY. Previously, Mr. Stapf worked as a PhD student at BMW AG and TU Darmstadt. During his time as a PhD student at BMW, Mr. Stapf was involved in the development of BMW's next generation "Digital Key", where his task was the analysis of existing and future security architectures. He also led several research-related development projects, which included testing the suitability of new technologies (e.g., biometrics, eID/mID) for vehicle access. In his research work, Mr. Stapf dealt with hardware-assisted security architectures on Arm- and RISC-V-based systems. Mr. Stapf was able to publish his research in several leading international conferences (e.g., NDSS, USENIX Security, ACM/IEEE DAC). Previously, he obtained two master's degrees in Computer Science and IT Security from TU Darmstadt in 2016.

Patrick Jauernig is Head of Business at SANCTUARY. Previously, he conducted research at TU Darmstadt on hardware-assisted run-time defenses and security architectures on Intel, Arm, and RISC-V-based systems. Mr. Jauernig also conducted research on new methods for dynamic code analysis in the area of fuzzing. Mr. Jauernig published numerous papers at leading international conferences in the IT security and hardware design area (e.g., NDSS, USENIX Security, ACM/IEEE DAC). Previously, he obtained two Master's degrees in Computer Science and IT Security from TU Darmstadt in 2017.

Lena Steden graduated with a master's degree in IT Security in 2014 from Ruhr University Bochum and joined ETAS (former ESCRYPT) in Munich. She returned to Bochum in 2016 and lead for the local engineering and consulting team. Since 2022 she is responsible for security expert services at ETAS. During her time with ETAS, Lena Steden has successfully led international project teams to consult automotive OEMs and suppliers focusing on the topic of Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA).