Ari Takanen

Ari Takanen, founder and CTO of Codenomicon, has since 1998 been focusing his work on information security issues in next-generation networks and security critical environments. His work at Codenomicon and the OUSPG (Oulu University Secure Programming Group) aims at ensuring that new technologies gain wide public acceptance, by providing means of measuring and solidifying the quality of networked software. Ari Takanen is one of the people behind the PROTOS research project, which studied information security and reliability errors in e.g. WAP, SNMP, LDAP, VoIP implementations. Ari is the author of several papers on security, and is a frequent speaker at security and testing conferences, as well as leading universities and international corporations. He is also author of two books on VoIP security and on security testing.