BSDCan2009 - Final Release

BSDCan 2009
The Technical BSD Conference

Fernando Gont

Fernando Gont specializes in the field of communications protocols security, working for private and gubernamental organizations both in Argentina and overseas.

Gont has worked on a number of projects for the UK National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) and the UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) in the field of communications protocols security. As part of his work for these organizations, he has written a series of documents with recommendations for network engineers and implementers of the TCP/IP protocol suite.

Gont is a member of the Centro de Estudios de Informatica (CEDI) at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional/Facultad Regional Haedo (UTN/FRH) of Argentina, where he works in the field of Internet engineering. He is active in several working groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), where he has has published a number of IETF Internet-Drafts, most of which have already been adopted by the IETF for their future publication as Internet RFCs.

Gont has been a speaker at a number of conferences and technical meetings about information security, operating systems, and Internet engineering, including: CanSecWest 2005, BSDCan 2005, Midnight Sun Vulnerability and Security Workshop/Retreat 2005, FIRST Technical Colloquium 2005, IETF 64, IETF 67, IETF 72, LACNIC X, JCC 2007, y LACNIC XI.