Role

The TF-CSIRT Steering Committee coordinates the activities of the Task Force. It is comprised of the TF-CSIRT Chair, the TF-CSIRT Secretary (ex-officio) and six elected representatives.

The TF-CSIRT Chair is elected every two years. The other elected representatives also serve two year terms, but the terms are staggered so that two representatives are elected each year. Elections are normally held during TF-CSIRT meetings in September. If you are interested in participating as an SC member, we have prepared some information that might be useful as to the commitment involved.

Responsibilities

The Steering Committee has the following responsibilities:

  • Coordinating the activities of TF-CSIRT and recommending courses of action where issues occur.
  • Making decisions on CSIRT accreditation and certification in accordance with the guidelines agreed by the TF-CSIRT membership.
  • Reviewing the performance of the Trusted Introducer service and making recommendations to modify or expand it.
  • Overseeing the development of the TRANSITS training curricula and course materials, monitoring tutoring standards, and registration of tutors.
  • Advising on future developments and strategic directions in computer security.
  • Providing input on meeting agendas.

Members

Silvio Oertli, TF-CSIRT Chair

Silvio Oertli is the Head of SWITCH-CERT (Universities & Registry). Before joining SWITCH-CERT, he has been working in IT investigation for law enforcement agencies since 2008. Started as an project manager, he went into the field of digital forensics and last as deputy head of the investigation service at the Cybercrime Competence Center of the Zürich cantonal police. Before his career as an IT investigator, he gained several years of IT industry experience as a project manager, software developer and systems engineer for 911-dispatch-software. Silvio is a trained IT forensics trainer and teaches digital Forensics at the University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich . In addition to his IT engineering degree, he holds a Bachelor of Law.

Silvio has been on the Steering Committee since September 2018 and the Chair of TF-CSIRT since September 2019.

Sigita Jurkynaitė, Steering Committee Member

Sigita works as Information Security Manager at Nord Security. She has international experience in cybersecurity project management, coordination of expert communities and training.

Previously, Sigita worked at GÉANT, where one of her tasks was coordinating TF-CSIRT. In addition, she led a wide range of international projects and teams, information security community activities and Special Interest Groups. She organised cyber security trainings, conferences and workshops in Europe and Asian countries.  Sigita was Director of CyberSOC at NRD prior to joining Nord Security.

Sigita has a BA Music Technology degree from the University of Bedfordshire (UK) and BA Liberal Arts and Sciences, majoring in Film and Literature studies, from the Amsterdam University College. She completed part of her second degree at the University of Toronto, focusing on Slavic languages and culture.

Sven Gabriel, Steering Committee Member

Sven Gabriel is a senior technical researcher at Nikhef, the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics. He has a background in Computational Chemistry and Climate modelling and worked on a wide range of IT and IT security activities in various international projects. In his current position he is working on operational security in EGI.eu, a publicly-funded federation of over 300 data and computing data centres spread across Europe and worldwide, serving over 60000 users from a wide range of fields. In this function he successfully drove the process to make EGI-CSIRT a certified team within Trusted Introducer (TI). Here he ran Security Drills on a global scale, challenging the Incident
Response capabilities of the various security teams active in EGI. In the same project, he also coordinated training addressing various technical and high level managerial problems in Incident Response for distributed infrastructures. Sven Gabriel received his Ph.D from RWTH Aachen University with a dissertation about Theoretical calculations of Circular Dichroism spectra of Bio-Organic compounds.

David Byers, Steering Committee Member

David Byers is head of the IT infrastructure office at Linköping University where his responsibilities include leading the university’s CSIRT and information security group. As team leader he has made development of the CSIRT’s capabilities, maturity, and engagement with communities such as TF-CSIRT a priority, including certification through Trusted Introducer. David has been active in the areas of system and network administration for nearly thirty years, with a particular focus on system and application security for the last fifteen. He was awarded a PhD in Computer Science from Linköping University with a disseration related to software security.

Jan Kopriva, Steering Committee Member

Jan is a security consultant currently leading Nettles Consulting. Before starting NC, Janwas briefly a security manager at Accenture and before that lead ALEF-CSIRT – a managed service IR team at an IT/security provider in the Czech Republic. Jan is also one of the “Handlers” at the SANS Internet Storm Center, a TI associate and FIRST Liaison. Jan jas been part of the international CSIRT community for many years.

Vladimir Bobor, Steering Committee Member

Vladimir Bobor was born 1971 in Belgrade, Serbia. He has lived in Stockholm, Sweden since 1994. He achieved in 2006 his MSc with a specialization in Information and Communication Systems Security from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm and B.Sc. in Computer Engineering 2000. In 2007 he joined TeliaCERT team as incident handler and forensics analyst with responsibility to coordinate Swedish part of TeliaCERT team. He has long experience in Information Security field; Network Security and Computer-Network Forensics. Vladimir was one of initiators of Swedish CERT Forum.

Andre Oosterwijk, Steering Committee Member

Andre Oosterwijk is a Senior Security Specialist – Incident Response at KPN CERT. He has worked in the public sector from 1997-2015 in different roles related to Incident response and security analysis at the Ministry of Defence and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL). His first TF-CSIRT meeting was in 2007 and he is an active participant in the community since then. The past years Andre worked for several multinational companies on Incident Response/Forensics and SOC/CSIRT deployment. Since 2017, he is working at the Dutch telco KPN as part of the KPN-CERT team.