ICT security is a
hot topic, with excellent job
opportunities. Some of our graduates have joined companies that
specialise in security. such as (security) consultancy companies,
evaluation laboratories, ICT industry producing security products.
Others have become as security specialists in organisations that rely
on ICT security rather than develop it (such as banks), in government
agencies and departments, or in scientific or industrial research.
Below some examples of students who completed the Kerckhoffs programme
to give an impression of where they come from, the degrees they
obtained prior to joining the programme, the topics they
investigated for their Master theses, and their careers after
graduating.
The Linkedin
Kerkhoffs group also gives an good impression of careers
of graduates from the Kerckhoffs Institute.
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Diego Ortiz Yepes took a degree in Systems and Computing Engineering
at the Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia before moving to the
Netherlands
for the Kerckhoffs Master. Diego did his Master thesis project at
IBM
Research Laboratory in Zurich, Switserland, on an NFC payment solution
for mobile phones, and went to work there after graduating.
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Arjan Blom did a
Bachelor in Information Technology at the HBO Windesheim in Zwolle
before doing the Kerckhoffs Master. In his Master thesis research
Arjan discover a serious security
flaw in the internet banking solution of ABN-AMRO, one of
the main banks in the Netherlands, with resulted in a publication at
NordSec
2012 conference in Sweden and attention in the Dutch
press. Together with a fellow student, Arjan founded a company,
| Flatstones,
that specialises in software solutions for complex business
processes.
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Brinio Hond, Jip Hoogenboom, Pieter Rogaar, and Martijn Sprengers all
joined KPMG
as security consultants after completing their Kerckhoffs
Master. Martijn also did his Bachelor (in Computer Science)
at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. Pieter did a
Bachelor in Mathematics at Leiden University, Brinio did a Bachelor
Computer Science at the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam, and Jip studied Computer
Science at the HAN (Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen) before
doing the Kerckhoffs Master.
For their Master theses they worked on topics as diverse as
side channel analysis of smartcards (in a research project
in collaboration with security evaluation lab | Riscure),
fuzzing of mobile phones (using the
GSM network equipment available at the Radboud University),
privacy-friendly authentication using Microsoft's U-Prove
technology,
and the use of GPUs (i.e. graphics cards) for brute force password cracking.
Jip managed to get three scientific publications out of
research projects he did during his Master,
at WISSEC 2009,
ICECS 2010
and the RSA 2012
conferences.
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Other Kerckhoff graduates have also joined security consultancy firms.
For example,
Simona Posea and Henri Hambartsumyan
joined Deloitte
after completing their Master degree. Simona did her Bachelor in
Computer Science at the University Politehnica of Bucharest
before moving to the Netherlands to joined the Kerckhoffs
programme.
For her Master thesis, Simona did research on renewal period
for cryptographic keys, which she also presented at the
CrossFyre symposium.
Henri researched techniques to detect XSS vulnerabilities using static analysis in a project with PWC (PriceWaterhouseCoopers).
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Bart van
Delft did a Bachelor in Artifical Intelligence at
the Radboud University before doing the Kerckhoffs Master.
For his Master thesis he did a research project at
Chalmers
University of Technology in Goteborg, Sweden on an EU Erasmus
scholarship. After graduating he continued in scientific
research as a PhD student at Chalmers University of
Technology.
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