André Mariën has over 40 years of experience in information technology (IT) and information security. Over the last 25 years he has focused exclusively on security. His experience includes risk management, security policies, legal and contractual aspects, awareness programs, 360-degree reviews, security architecture, designs and implementation focusing on security, security in applications and infrastructure, public key infrastructure (PKI), forensics, and identity and access management (IAM).

André obtained a master-after-master in enterprise architecture and taught enterprise security architecture for a master’s program. His job brought him to places in Europe, the US, and Asia.

He is a long-time reviewer of articles and books for ACM Computing Reviews, covering a very broad spectrum of security publications. He has been a staff member of the KU Leuven Department of Computer Science since he graduated and is completing his final year as a professor.