Biography
Summary
Over 10 years of professional experience designing and architecting secure software systems. Technical, organizational, and leadership skills in the areas of Information Security and Cloud Computing.
Professional Experience
2019-2020. Semtech International AG. Cloud Platform Technical Lead. Rapperswil, Switzerland
2008-2018 Research Staff Member. IBM Research – Zurich Laboratory. Rüschlikon, Switzerland
- Artificial Intelligence based Healthcare Triage System.
- Secure Element-based Mobile Payments
- Zone Trusted Information Channel (ZTIC)
- Secure Electronic ID Personalization
- Ebanking Authentication
Education
- 2016. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Practical hardware and software add-ons to enhance the security of mobile device operations.
- 2008. Master of Science (MsC), Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Enhancing Authentication in eBanking with NFC-enabled mobile phones.
- 2005. Systems and Computing Engineer, Universidad de los Andes.
Additional Education
- 2022. Certificate in Higher Education Didactics (Hochschuldidaktik). Hochschule Luzern (HSLU).
Certifications
- CISSP - Certified Information Systems Security Professional.
- CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate
Publications
- Ortiz Yepes, D.: A review of technical approaches to realizing Near-Field Communication mobile payments. Security & Privacy. IEEE (July-August 2016)
- Ortiz Yepes, D.: Practical hardware and software add-ons to enhance the security of mobile device operations. PhD Thesis. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (June 2016)
- Camenisch, J., Ortiz Yepes, D., Preiss, F.S.: Strengthening authentication with privacy-preserving location veri?cation of mobile phones. In: Proceedings of the 14th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society. pp. 37–48. WPES ’15, ACM (October 2015)
- Ortiz Yepes, D.: BALSA: Bluetooth Low Energy Application Layer Security Add-on. In: International Workshop on Secure Internet of Things 2015. pp. 1–10. IEEE (September 2015)
- Ortiz Yepes, D.: Optimizing TLS for low bandwidth environments. In: Cuppens, F., Garcia-Alfaro, J., Zincir Heywood, N., Fong, P.W.L. (eds.) Foundations and Practice of Security, vol. 8930, pp. 147–167. Springer (April 2015)
- Ortiz Yepes, D.: A critical review of the EMV Payment Tokenisation Speci?cation. Computer Fraud & Security 2014(10), pp. 5–12. Elsevier (October 2014)
- Ortiz Yepes, D., Hermann, R., Steinauer, H., Buhler, P.: Bringing strong authentication and transaction security to the realm of mobile devices. IBM Journal of Research and Development – Cybersecurity for a Smarter Planet 58, pp. 4:1–4:11. IBM (January-February 2014)
- Ortiz Yepes, D., et al.: Forensic data analysis: A methodological proposal and its application using The Sleuth Kit and Encase. In Jeimy CANO "Computación Forense. Descubriendo los rastros informáticos". First Edition. Alfaomega Grupo Editor, S.A. de C.V., Mexico. ISBN: 978-958-682-767-6. pp. 179 – 215 (July 2009)
- Ortiz Yepes, D., et al.: IDSs and IPSs: A practical comparison. Available in Criptored (“Ibero-american network of Cryptography and Information Security”) at: http://www.criptored.upm.es/guiateoria/gt_m142w.htm (June 2005)
- Ortiz-Yepes, D., et al.: MAC Filters evasion in 802.11 networks. Available in Criptored (“Ibero-american network of Cryptography and Information Security”) at: http://www.criptored.upm.es/guiateoria/gt_m142v.htm (March 2005)
Patent Applications
- Ortiz Yepes D., et al.: Privacy friendly location-based services (November 2015), US Patent App 14/943,144
- Ortiz Yepes D., et al.: Authentication of user computers (April 2015), US Patent App. 14/692,441
- Ortiz Yepes, D. et al.: Automatic rotation of display contents of a handheld companion device rigidly attached to a handheld mobile device (July 2013), GB Patent App. 1313167.7
