Important personalitiesBack
Norbert Pohlmann20.3.1960
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 merger with Utimaco Safeware AG he was a member of the Utimaco Safeware AG management board from 1999 to 2003. Since 2003 Norbert Pohlmann has been Professor in the Computer Science Department for distributed systems and information security and director of the Institute for Internet Security at the Westphalia University of Applied Sciences Gelsenkirchen in Germany.
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 has been member of the board since 1994 and chairman of the board since April 1998. Norbert Pohlmann has been 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) 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.
