IFIP WG11.4 elects Zoltan Mann as new chair

IFIP Working Group 11.4 “Network & Distributed Systems Security” elected Dr. Zoltan Mann as the new chair of the working group in its meeting on 16 March 2023. Zoltan takes over the chair role from Professor Dogan Kesdogan, who will continue as secretary of the working group. The new chair and secretary work as acting officers until they are approved by the IFIP Technical Committee 11 in June 2023.

IFIP, the International Federation for Information Processing, is the leading multinational, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Sciences. It connects researchers worldwide in over 100 Working Groups and 13 Technical Committees. IFIP Technical Committee 11 is concerned with security and privacy protection in information processing systems, and consists of 14 working groups, addressing different aspects of security and privacy. Working Group 11.4 focuses on security in networks and distributed systems.