Raphael Reischuk is Partner and Head of Cybersecurity at Zühlke Engineering AG. He is Vice President of the Cybersecurity Committee of Digitalswitzerland, co-founder and board member of the Swiss National Test Institute for Cybersecurity (NTC), a member of the Innovation Council of Innosuisse, a member of the Cybersecurity Advisory Board of the Swiss Academies of Engineering Sciences (SATW), and a frequent and passionate speaker at international conferences. Raphael Reischuk is a member of several international program committees for information security, and appears regularly on topics of network, web and cyber security. Raphael Reischuk is the author of numerous scientific publications in various fields of IT security and cryptography, for which he has received several (international) awards. In 2021, Raphael Reischuk was named one of the Top 100 Digital Shapers of Switzerland by BILANZ and Handelszeitung.
After studying computer science with a focus on information security, Raphael Reischuk received his PhD with distinction in web and cloud security from CISPA (the Center for IT-Security, Privacy, and Accountability) at Saarland University and Cornell University under the direction of Prof. Michael Backes and Prof. Johannes Gehrke. Before joining Zühlke, he worked as Senior Information Security Researcher and ZISC fellow at ETH Zürich (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), where he has done research and teaching on secure Internet architectures and co-developed SCION.
• lead implementer and lead auditor ISO 27001
• consulting, implementing and running information security management systems (ISMS)
• incentivization for correct behavior in the TLS infrastructure and the web ecosystem [MR '17]
• secure-by-design application development and analysis through the SAFE Activation Framework for Extensibility [WWW '12, ACM CCS '13, ICWE '15]
• for network architectures
[SENT '15, TOPS '17, IEEE S&P '17]
• for the web ecosystem
[WWW '12, ACM CCS '13, ICWE '15]
• for stateless IAM solutions with efficiently decidable authorization
• wholistic protection against volumetric distributed denial-of-service attacks [ICNP '15, NDSS '16]
• verifiable delegation of computation and data
• in cloud-based environments
[ACM CCS '13]
• with efficient verification for smart IoT devices
[IEEE S&P '15]
• Ethereum-driven incentivization for preventing fraudulent certificates in the TLS ecosystem [SENT '15, IEEE S&P '17]
• the highly-available SCION Internet Architecture [ACM CCS '16, CACM '17, Spr '17]
• detection and deterrence of non-compliant behavior across autonomous systems [ICNP '15, iNetSec '15, SENT '15]
• protocol synthesis from declarative specifications [SecDay '10, TOSCA '11]
• automated verification for cryptographic protocols [TOSCA '11]
• state restoration for propagation solvers [BSc '08, CP '09]
• conflict-clause learning for satisfiability [BSc '08, CP '09]
2025/02/25 | Opening Keynote for Marcom Suisse, Zug, Switzerland
2025/01/21 | Invited talk, Zürich, Switzerland
2025/01/14 | Invited talk, Schlieren, Switzerland
2024/11/26-27 | Global Cyber Conference 2024, Dolder Grand Zurich, Switzerland
2024/11/19 | Siemens, Zug, Switzerland
2024/11/14 | Webinar
Contribution to AI study by think tank W.I.R.E., AI Center ETH Zurich, and Innovate Switzerland
2024/10/02 | Switzerland
Interview in Tagesanzeiger / Business Pointers
2024/09/28 | Tagesanzeiger, Switzerland
Interview on Swiss Radio SRF News about software and its supply chain risks in modern cars
2024/09/24 | Switzerland
· Interview on Swiss Radio SRF about risks and technical backgrounds of explosive pagers
· Interview in F.A.Z. "Podcast für Deutschland"
· Interview with Swiss newspaper Blick
· Interview with Swiss TV TeleZüri
2024/09/18 | Switzerland, Germany
Intro speech on AI risks and their mitigations
2024/09/18 | Zug, Switzerland
Panel discussion on the security of emerging tech in Switzerland
2024/09/10 | Bern, Switzerland
Opening keynote at the Swiss Cyber Circle
2024/09/04 | ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Impulse speech at the Zukunftsmenschen webinar
2024/09/03 | Webinar
Interview on Swiss Radio SRF News Plus about WhatsApp disabling screenshots on iOS
2024/08/16 | Switzerland
We haved interviewed CISOs from small to large organisations across industries to gain insights from these leaders on securing artificial intelligence.
2024/08/12 | Study, English version, German version
Interview in Swiss TV SRF 10 vor 10 on the CrowdStrike outages and the security consequences
2024/07/19 | Switzerland
2024/06/21 | one-pager prodiving essential information on scope, key requirements, and penalties
Panel discussion on data-driven cyber insurance
2024/06/19-20 | Zurich, Switzerland
2024/05/29 | Blog post, German version, one-pager
Article on the security of OT and IoT
2024/05/21 | Electrosuisse Bulletin, German version, French version
Input talk at a Zühlke AI event tailored to board members and c-level executives
2024/05/16 | Schlieren, Switzerland
Guest Lecture Uni Luzern
2024/05/01 | Lucerne, Switzerland
Closing keynote at the IoT Konferenz 2024 of asut
2024/04/11 | Kursaal, Berne, Switzerland
Opening keynote at the Fintech Seminar of the Europa Institut at the University of Zurich
2024/04/03 | Zurich, Switzerland
Invited talk at the member apero of asut
2024/03/21 | Zurich, Switzerland
Article on the security of charging infrastructure for e-mobility.
2024/02/29 | VSE
Panel discussion at the Suisse Digital Day 2023
2023/11/22 | Kursaal, Bern, Switzerland
Interview given on the security testing of the Swiss e-mobility infrastructure
2023/11/16 | Hallenstadion, Zurich
Report on the security vulnerabilities in the Swiss electric mobility charging infrastructure
English: Report (PDF),
Press release
German: Bericht (PDF),
Medienmitteilung
2023/11/15 | Zug
Keynote für Zuger Wirtschaftskammer
2023/11/06 | Zug
Chapter for the digitization book by Oliver Gassmann and Philipp Sutter on how to successfully manage digital transformation (see below)
2023/10/13 | Book chapter on cyber resilience and the value of networks in adversarial settings
Keynote "Rethink Security"
Fireside Chat with Jamil Farshchi on third-party security risk management
Interview with Samir Aliyev
2023/09/14-15 | Dolder Grand Zurich, Switzerland
Keynote for NTC
2023/08/21 | Zug, Switzerland
2023/08/09-11 | Anaheim, CA, USA
Article covering the essential justification for why it is necessary to prepare for the quantum revolution now
2023/07/12 | Zurich, Switzerland
Interview by inside-it.ch following the open letter on EU's proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation
2023/07/11 | Zurich, Switzerland
Keynote at Business Club Zurich
2023/06/26 | Zurich, Switzerland
Interview in Swiss TV 10 vor 10
2023/06/13 | Switzerland
Invited talk at the Helvetia Cyber Insurance Event
"Versicherbarkeit von Cyber-Grossrisiken"
2023/06/05 | Casino Bern, Switzerland
2023/05/31 | Interview by SwissCyberSecurity.net
Welcome note and opening of the IoT / OT Security Conference
2023/03/07 | Cham, Switzerland
2023/01/10 | Interview by German newspaper Tagesspiegel
How Swiss society and economy benefit from independent security testing
Invited talk at the Suisse Digital Day 2022
2022/11/23 | Kursaal, Bern, Switzerland
Invited talk, registration link
2022/10/26 | Kursaal, Berne, Switzerland
Keynote at the founding assembly of the Officer's Association of Cyber
2022/10/14 | Berne, Switzerland
Panel discussion, registration link
2022/09/22-23 | Dolder Grand Zurich, Switzerland
Wie die Schweizer Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft von unabhängigen Sicherheitstests profitieren
Keynote at the IT-Monitoring-Konferenz 2022
2022/09/20 | Gottlieb Duttweiler Institut, Rüschlikon, Switzerland
2022/08/25 | Interview for Swiss Radio SRF
Interview on how to achieve neutrality in cyber testing in Switzerland
Invited talk and moderation of panel discussion
2022/07/07 | Zurich, Switzerland
Invited talk at the CONNECT fair
2022/05/18 | Willisau, Switzerland
Keynote talk at Allianz GI Cyber Security
2022/05/04 | Frankfurt, Germany
Keynote talk at the Swiss Center of Applied Underground Technologies (SCAUT)
2022/03/23 | Altdorf, Switzerland
Panel discussion on the security and autonomy in a globalized world, together with Bundesrat Ueli Maurer, the Swiss Federal Cyber Delegate Florian Schütz, Global Head of Security IT UBS, Head of Cybersecurity Siemens, Head of competence sector Science and Technology Armasuisse
2022/03/01 | ePower Politics Event, Bern, Switzerland
Panelist in a discussion on the security benefits and shortcommings of open-source software
2021/12/09 | Open Source Security Summit
Invited talk at the Thurgauische Naturforschende Gesellschaft
2021/11/29 | Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
Interview on the cyber threats for human resources (HR) departments
Invited talk at the Walter-Siegenthaler-Gesellschaft
2021/11/13 | Cologne, Germany
Named a Top 100 Digital Shaper of Switzerland by BILANZ and Handelszeitung
2021/09/28
Interview on the threats in a connected world and on security testing
2021/09/23 | Interview for Beobachter
Welcome note and opening of the Information Security in Healthcare conference
2021/09/21 | Cham, Switzerland
Break out session with think tank W.I.R.E.
2021/09/16 | Conference Trendtage Gesundheit Luzern | Lucerne, Switzerland
Chapter for the book by Oliver Gassmann and Fabrizio Ferrandina on how to develop business in a connected world (see below)
2021/08/11 | Book chapter on the security of connected ecosystems
The 21st International Conference on Web Engineering
2021/05/18-21 | Biarritz, France
Why is security such a hot topic today and how to improve the security of your products and businesses?
2021/05/03 | Interview for the DevTalk podcast by Kerry Lothrop
2021/03/16 | Keynote at Bridge2Digital's event on Security & Compliance
Cloud Edge Industrial IoT (IIoT): which additional security measures are needed?
2021/03/04 | Moderator and sponsor at the 2nd Swiss OT-IT Cyber Security Forum
Contribution to two OECD reports on understanding and enhancing the digital security of products
2021/02/09 | Digital Security Working Group, OECD, Paris
2021/02/3-4 | Keynote at the Sophos Evolve Cybersecurity Summit
2020/12/22 | Video
2020/11/30 | Article at computerworld.ch, PDF
Interview on the CVE vulnerability system
2020/11/10 | Article at inside-it.ch
The Charter of Trust's suggestions for strengthening cybersecurity measures
2020/10/20 | Online Panel, Report
2020/09/29 | Article for inside-it.ch
2020/09/24 | Berne
2020/08/14 | Interview in an article in Swiss newspaper NZZ
2020/08/10 | Article for SATW
2020/07/20 | Article in Swiss newspaper NZZ
The 20th International Conference on Web Engineering
2020/06/09-12 | Helsinki, Finland
2020/06/08 | FAQ, Blog post, SRF Tagesschau
Webinar on the conflict between customer experience and data protection in future shopping
2020/05/29
Interview with Radio 3FACH
2020/03/10 | iTunes Podcast, Radio 3Fach, Lucerne
OECD Expert Group Workshop on Enhancing the Digital Security of Products
2020/02/19-20 | Working Party on Security and Privacy in the Digital Economy (SPDE), OECD, Paris
Article about measuring and increasing the strength of the human firewall
2020/02/10 | Article at netzwoche.ch
The 11th International IEEE Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science
2019/12/11-13 | Sydney, Australia
Es führt kein Weg daran vorbei: Digitalisierung im Treuhandwesen
2019/12/12 | Invited talk at EXPERTsuisse
Interview on recent data breaches
2019/12/05 | Article in the Swiss newspaper Berner Zeitung
Breakfast Talk incl Live Hacking
2019/12/04 | Breakfast talk
part 1) intro to authentication; part 2) password handling; part 3) password managers and alternatives
2019/11/08 | Full video series (german)
Die Passwort-Falle: Wenn der Mensch zum Risikofaktor wird
2019/11/06 | Blog post
Redesigning Financial Services
2019/10/30 | Invited talk
Roundtable and Panel Discussion for Women in Business
2019/10/21 | Dolder Grand, Zurich
2019/10/17 | Interview "Sicherheit ist keine Checkliste" for newspaper Handelszeitung
Invited talk at the Alumni Event of KMU/CFB-HSG
2019/10/04 | University of St. Gallen (HSG)
Interview on the call for a Swiss testing lab to independently test cyber products
2019/09/26 | Published at Swisscom's media portal Bluewin
Analysis and measures to secure the digital supply chain. White paper (PDF), press release
2019/09/25 | ICTswitzerland, Berne
2019/09/10 | IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Invited talk at CEO-Talk 2019 & Industry 4.0 Seminar
2019/09/04 | EMPA Dübendorf, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Invited talk at the Cadenabbia Network
2019/08/21-23 | Cadenabbia, Italy
The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Fog Computing Technologies and Applications
2019/08/08-10 | Washington DC, USA
Cornerstones for a sustainable cyber security strategy
2019/07/10 | Chapter in the book RADAR #4 for think tank W.I.R.E.
The 19th International Conference on Web Engineering
2019/06/11-14 | Daejeon, South Korea
Public talk at Automation & Electronics 2019
2019/06/05-06 | Zurich
Chapter for the insights and know-how book written by a number of Zühlke employees (see below)
2019/06/05 | Book chapter on the elegance, robustness, and efficiency of stateless communication
Disruption durch Digitalisierung
2019/05/23 | Article in KMU-Magazin about disruptive forces in the digital transformation
Why is information security a human-centered discipline?
2019/05/22 | Interview for most attractive employers
Inspiration Keynote
2019/04/10 | DigitNetwork | Zurich
Panel Discussion at Trendtage Luzern (program, PDF)
2019/03/27-28 | Luzern
How to cope with the growing threat of cybercrime and insider threats in the healthcare market?
2019/03/27 | Invited talk | Novartis, Basel
Tech talk above the city of Berne, meetup
2019/03/20 | Berne
Invited talk at Beyond Banking, Finanz und Wirtschaft (program, PDF)
2019/03/14 | Dolder Grand, Zurich
Chapter for the digitization book by Oliver Gassmann and Philipp Sutter on how to successfully manage digital transformation (see below)
2019/03/11 | Book chapter on the security of the economically most important encryption ecosystem
Warum es sich lohnt, von Cyberkriminellen zu lernen
2019/02/21 | Article in the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ)
2019/01/25 | Interview about the risks of e-voting at Swisscom's media portal Bluewin.
Inspiration Keynote
2019/01/16 | Microsoft Pop-up House, Paradeplatz, Zurich
The 10th International IEEE Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science
2018/12/10 | Nicosia, Cyprus
2018/11/23 | Zurich
2018/11/22 | ETH Zurich, Lange Nacht der Karriere | Zurich
2018/11/20 | ETH Zurich, Alumni Focus Event | Zurich
How to cope with the growing threat of cybercrime and insider threats in the healthcare market?
2018/10/16+17 | Talk at the annual event of the Medtech & Pharma Platform | Basel
2018/10/08 | Technical Deep Dive into SCION | Brown Bag Lunch @ oneconsult
2018/09/22 | Public talk at BSides ZH | Zurich
2018/08/13 | Zurich
2018/06/25 | Invited talk at the general assembly of Swiss Cyber Experts | Zurich
2018/06/11 | Invited talk at About & Beyond PKI | Berne
2018/05/18 | Invited talk at the Big Techday 11 | Munich
2018/03/26 | Berne
2018/03/22 | Keynote at the Safety & Security Conference (SASEC) | full program | Munich
How to protect innovation in the digital age?
2018/03/08 | Public talk at the Zühlke Innovation Talks 2018 | full program | Zurich
2018/01/18+19 | Public talk at the World Web Forum 2018 | Zurich
The 9th International IEEE Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science
2017/12/11 | Hong Kong
2017/11/28 | Interview in an article in the Swiss newspaper Blick am Abend
2017/11/28 | Invited talk about cloud security at the TestStand User Group Meeting 2017 | Zurich
2017/11/13 | Blog post on the alleged hack of Face ID on iPhone X (German)
2017/10/31 | Parkomatic AG, Umweltarena Spreitenbach, Switzerland
2017/10/25 | Switzerland Global Enterprise, Zurich, Switzerland
2017/10/18 | KKL, Lucerne, Switzerland
2017/09/07 | Interview in an article in the Swiss newspaper Blick
2017/06/30 | Article in the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) about the Petya malware
2017/06/28 | Keynote talk at DigitSummit 2017, Zurich
2017/06/20 | Article in KMU-Magazin about the digital transformation and the security of IoT
2017/06/06 | Panel discussion at TechTuesday, Zurich
2017/05/24 | Peer-reviewed article in the journal Communications of the ACM
2017/05/16 | Simple thoughts on how to stop ransomware
2017/05/15 | Blog post on the WannaCry ransomware
2017/04/05 | Blog post on the growing importance of authentication
2017/02/07 | Keynote talk at TechTuesday Zurich on the design and deployment challenges of a secure Internet for the 21st century
2017/01/25 |
Awarded for our research paper "ADSNARK",
published at the IEEE
Security & Privacy Conference 2015 and as part of the dissertation. More information is available
here,
here,
or here.
The 8th International IEEE Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science
2016/12/12 | Luxembourg
2016/12/09 | Public talk and workshop at Zurich Dark Night, Karl der Grosse, Zurich.
2016/11/27 | Public keynote at Treffpunkt Science City, ETH Zurich.
2016/11/24 | Keynote talk at Geopolitics-Aware Internet Strategies, Rome.
2016/10/24 | Vienna, Austria
2016/08/31 | Amalfi, Italy
2016/06/14 | Invited talk at the SWITCH Network and Security Conference, Lucerne.
2016/03/21 | Saarbrücken, Germany
2016/02/22 | Conference talk at the Internet Society Network and Distributed System Security Symposium 2016 (NDSS), San Diego, USA.
2015/11/30 | Vancouver, Canada
2015/06/23 | Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2015/02/08 | San Diego, CA, USA
granted by the National Commission on Informatics and Liberty in France (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés). See here and here.
for the dissertation on IT-security at CISPA, Saarland University.
(3rd Edition) Conceptual-strategic contributions and case studies show how the digital transformation can be successfully designed and implemented. Raphael Reischuk contributed a chapter on cyber resilience and the value of networks in adversarial settings. The book is available on Amazon and OrellFüssli since October 2023.
How do you develop business in a world certain to be dominated by Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and the Economy of Things? This book brings together leading scholars from academia, established practitioners, and thought-leading consultants who analyse and provide guidance to answer this question. Raphael Reischuk contributed a chapter on the value of a network in adversarial settings. The book is available on Amazon and OrellFüssli since August 2021.
A collaborative book on best practices, cultural philosophies, great ideas, and practically proven concepts in engineering for and with people. Raphael Reischuk contributed a chapter on the elegance, efficiency, robustness, and security of stateless communication in the industrial internet of things. The book is available on Amazon and OrellFüssli since June 2019.
Conceptual-strategic contributions and case studies show how the digital transformation can be successfully designed and implemented. Raphael Reischuk contributed a chapter on the security considerations of the economically most important encryption ecosystem. The book is available on Amazon and OrellFüssli since March 2019.
The first comprehensive book on the Future Internet Architecture SCION. Raphael Reischuk is a lead author of the book and a co-inventor of SCION. The book was published by Springer-Verlag in November 2017.
This book is an introduction to computer science based on functional programming. It is mostly written for undergraduate CS students. Raphael Reischuk assisted Gert Smolka in writing the first and second edition of the book.