Norbert Pohlmann

Norbert Pohlmann (* 20 March 1960 in Ratingen/Germany) is a computer scientist and a professor at the University of Applied Sciences Gelsenkirchen.

Biography

Norbert Pohlmann studied Electrical Engineering (1981–1985), specialized in Computer Science, and has written his doctoral thesis on "Possibilities and Limitations of Firewall Systems".

He was Managing Director at KryptoKom (Company for information security and communication technology) from 1988 to 1999. After the merger with Utimaco Safeware AG he was a member of the Utimaco Safeware AG management board from 1999 to 2003. Since 2003 Norbert Pohlmann is Professor in the Computer Science Department for distributed systems and information security and director of the Institute for Internet Security at the University of Applied Sciences Gelsenkirchen.

He is one of the founders of the IT Security Association TeleTrusT (which establishes reliable conditions for the trustworthy application of information- and communication technologies) where he is member of the board since 1994 and chairman of the board since April 1998.^[1] Norbert Pohlmann is one of the initiators of the "Information Security Solutions Europe" (ISSE) and chairman of the ISSE program committee of the ISSE conference.

In addition to that he is also a member of the academic council of the GDD (The German Association for Data Protection and Data Security)^[2] as well as a member of the advisory council eco (Association of the German Internet Industry). He used to be a member of the Permanent Stakeholders' Group of the ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) from 2005 to 2010.

Awards and honors

• Rudolf-Thoma Prize of VDE (Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technology) for the best final grade in the graduation year 1985

• 1997 City of Aachen’s Prize for Innovation and Technology.^[3]

Publications

• Firewall Architecture for the Enterprise, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, USA, 2002 ISBN 076454926X.
• Firewall-Systeme - Sicherheit für Internet und Intranet, E-Mail-Security, Virtual Private Network, Intrusion Detection System, Personal Firewalls MITP-Verlag, Bonn 2003 ISBN 3-8266-0988-3.
• Virtual Private Network (VPN) MITP-Verlag, Bonn 2003 ISBN 3-8266-0882-8
• Der IT-Sicherheitsleitfaden MITP-Verlag, Bonn 2006 ISBN 3-8266-1635-9
• Sicher im Internet: Tipps und Tricks für das digitale Leben orell füssli Verlag, Zürich 2010 ISBN 978-3-280-05381-2

References

1. ^ http://www.teletrust.de/ueber-teletrust/geschaeftsfuehrung/vorstand/
2. ^ https://www.gdd.de/vorstellung/organisation-1
3. ^ http://www.aachen.de/DE/Stadt_buerger/aachen_profil/chronik/pdfs_chronik/chronik1997.pdf

External links

• CV Norbert Pohlmann
• Books by Pohlmann as PDF

• Literature by and about Norbert Pohlmann in the German National Library catalogue
• Institut für Internet-Sicherheit

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Name	Pohlmann, Norbert
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Short description	german computer scientist
Date of birth	March 20, 1960
Place of birth	Ratingen
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