Carlos Serrao

Current

• Leader at OWASP Portugal
• Assistant Professor at ISCTE
• Project Management, Team Leader and Researcher at ADETTI

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Past

• Vice-President at ADETTI

Education

• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa
• Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa

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Recommended

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Connections

201 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• Personal Web-Site
• Blog
• ADETTI

Carlos Serrao’s Summary

I was born in Lisbon in 1973. I've concluded my BSc (5 years degree) in 1996, in Management and Computer Science, at ISCTE. I concluded my MSc in 2002, at ISCTE, with a specialization in Information Security (Information System Management). The thesis topic was "The importance of PKI for the Digital Content E-Commerce". Concluded my PhD at the UPC (Barcelona, Spain), about the DRM platform Interoperability topic in cooperation with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. I am currently teaching at ISCTE/DCTI, giving classes related to Information Security, Development and Management of Information Systems and IS/IT Project Management. I am the former Vice-President and currently Project Manager and Consultant in R&D projects at ADETTI in the Networks, Multimedia and Security lab. My main research topics are Information Security, PKI, Secure Access to Multimedia Content and Digital Rights Management. I've been working on several national and international projects: ACTS AC051 OKAPI, ACTS AC242 OCTALIS, IST-1999-11443 OCCAMM, IST-2000-28646 PRIAM, IST-2001-34144 MOSES, FP6 IP MEDIANET, FP6 NoE E-Next, FP6 STREP WCAM. I've also participated on a European Space Agency project (HICOD2000). I'm also the author and co-author of several papers in international conferences, journals and project deliverables. I'm also the author of several books on PHP. You may also take a look at my personal Blog (this is in Portuguese).

Carlos Serrao’s Specialties:

Digital Rights Management, Content Protection, Information Security, E-Commerce and E-Business, Web-based Information Systems, Public-Key Infrastructures, Project and Team Management

Carlos Serrao’s Experience

• Leader

  OWASP Portugal

  (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

  April 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  Leader and evangelist of the portuguese chapter of the Open Web Applications Security Project, an non-profit worldwide organization that addresses web applications and services security.

• Assistant Professor

  ISCTE

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  January 1999 — Present (10 years 7 months)

  Assistant Professor at the ISCTE University, teaching subjects related with IT/IS - Information Security, E-Business and E-Commerce, Information Systems Management and Project Management.

• Project Management, Team Leader and Researcher

  ADETTI

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

  January 1995 — Present (14 years 7 months)

  Project management and consultancy on IT/IS R&D projects at the Networks, Multimedia and Security laboratory. Here is a list of past and on-going activities:
  • Project Management of the following projects:
  - WCAM – Wireless Cameras and audio-visual seamless networking (IST-2003-507204)
  - MEDIANET – Multimedia Networking (FP6-507452)
  - HICOD2000 – High-Performance Coding, Protection and Trading Of Satellite Images, Using JPEG2000 (ESA - European Space Agency)
  - MOSES – MPEG Open Security for Embedded Systems (IST-2001-34144)
  - PRIAM – Platform for Real Time Interactive Access to Mega Images (IST-2000-28646)
  • Technical consultancy on the following:
  - 2KAN – (IST)
  - MIGRATOR2000 – (ACTS)
  - OCTALIS project – Offer of Content Through Trusted Access Links (ACTS – AC242)
  - OKAPI – Open Kernel for Access to Protected Interoperable Interactive Services (ACTS – AC051)

• Vice-President

  ADETTI

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

  January 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 11 months)

  In ADETTI, i'm part of the board of directors and i share the responsability for the strategic decisions for the company. I'm directly involved in R&D area and in the manegement of the IT/IS infra-structure.

Carlos Serrao’s Education

• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

  PhD , Computer Architecture and Science , 2004 — 2008

  Conclude my PhD on the interoperability mechanisms for rights management platforms.

• Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa

  MSc. , PKI, Information Security, E-Commerce, DRM , 2000 — 2001

  Completed his Master thesis with success. The theme was: "The importance of PKI in the digital content e-Commerce"

• Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa

  BSc. , Computer Science and Management , 1991 — 1996

Additional Information

Carlos Serrao’s Websites:

• Personal Web-Site
• Blog
• ADETTI

Carlos Serrao’s Interests:

Information Security, Public-Key Infrastructures, Secure Access to Multimedia Content, Access Control, Digital Rights Management, E-Business and E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems.

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