Fernando Gont

Fernando Gont is Director of Information Security at EdgeUno.

Before joining EdgeUno, Gont has worked as a security researcher and consultant for SI6 Networks, and has also worked  on a number of projects for the UK National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) and the UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), in the field of communications protocols security.

As part of his work for these organizations, he has produced a series of documents with recommendations for network engineers and implementers of the TCP/IP protocol suite, and has performed the first thorough security assessment of the IPv6 protocol suite.

Gont has participated in several working groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for over 15 years, and has authored or co-authored over 30 IETF RFCs (Request For Comments) and more than a dozen IETF Internet-Drafts.

Gont has also developed the SI6 Network’s IPv6 Toolkit – a portable and comprehensive security toolkit for the IPv6 protocol suite – , and has contributed to a number of open-source projects such as the Linux kernel and the OpenBSD operating system.

More information about Fernando Gont is available at his personal web site: https://www.gont.com.ar .

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