Eric Vyncke

Current

Distinguished System Engineer at Cisco Systems
Guest Professor at HEC

Past

Project Manager at Siemens Nixdorf
R&D Supervisor at NRB
Research Assistant at Université de Liège

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Education

Université de Liège

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

Eric Vyncke’s Summary

Eric Vyncke’s Specialties:

network security, IPv6, IP telephone

Eric Vyncke’s Experience

Distinguished System Engineer

Cisco Systems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

January 1997 — Present (12 years 11 months)

Eric works for Cisco by helping customers with security design and by assisting product design (notably security). He participates regularly at the IETF (author of RFC 3585) as well as other conferences like RSA.
He wrote the 'LAN Security' book in Cisco Press
He holds a CISSP certification.
Guest Professor

HEC

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Education Management industry)

September 1986 — Present (23 years 3 months)

In 2006-2007, two lectures:
1) Outils d'Analyse des Bases et Banques de Données: SQL, PHP, security, multi-media
2) Sécurité de l'Information: security from physical to network including risk management
Project Manager

Siemens Nixdorf

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Networking industry)

1992 — December 1996 (4 years )

Acting both as a consultant (mainly for European Commission) as well as development manager/project manager/architect of several projects including: subscriber management for a mobile operator, secure military message handling system (smart card, X.400, ACP.127 gateway), call center, firewall
R&D Supervisor

NRB

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

September 1986 — 1992 (6 years )

Eric worked as the head of R&D with projects like developing an automated network management system with the help of Artificial Intelligence, application gateway between different protocols (like Digital LAT over Ethernet to Token Ring). He also managed to team who was the first to deploy a multi-protocol network (DECnet, bridging, IP and AppleTalk) in Belgium with Cisco routers running 8.3.
Research Assistant

Université de Liège

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Education Management industry)

September 1983 — August 1986 (3 years )

Eric worked on a European Commission funded project called ESPRIT BWN. He developped and simulated a new data link layer which pre-dates the FDDI.
He also developped an Ethernet interface (based on existing hardware) for a Digital TOPS-20 mainframe including device driver, kernel routines and XNS stack.