Ronny Bjones

Ronny Bjones is working for Microsoft Corporate as security architect. Ronny is the EMEA security lead for Microsoft’s enterprise business. He joined Microsoft in 2002 to contribute in trustworthy computing. He has 26 years of experience in ICT, 20 of those in security. Ronny published QuEST together with several industry specialists in the subject of electronic signatures. Ronny also co-authored “Best Practice for Applications using the electronic Identity Card”. He is a board member of EEMA, an organisation providing guidance on e-Business. Ronny is also member of the ISSE program committee. He is also member of the OASIS Security Conference program committee and the World-eID program committee. Ronny Bjones was one of the four founders of Utimaco Belgium, where he worked ten years as R&D director. Before Utimaco Ronny worked for a Belgian EFT specialist called Prodata and one of the first firms to specialize in cryptography in Europe called Cryptech. He a bachelor in electronics, Master in IT management and MSc in Information technology. Integrating Microsoft PKI infrastructure within e-Government Microsoft has made a strategic bet on PKI technology since Windows 2000. Since then PKI components have been integrated on the server and clients following international standards. The session will cover how the Microsoft PKI solution can be used within the government to protect the enterprise and how it can be used to build national infrastructures for e-ID and digital signatures.