| Biography Hans J. Wieser was born September 11th 1954 in Chur Switzerland. After he finished his college years and attended the Engineering School in Winterthur he started his professional career in the Machine Tool Works Oerlikon Bührle as Software Engineer developing mission critical missile guidance software.
During his long term delegation (for a total duration of 12 years) to the United States and Canada he assumed a variety of management positions such as Program Manager for the ADATS Launch and Command Vehicles, Head of the Software Support Centre Facilities for the Canadian Forces and Head of System Engineering of the newly established Oerlikon Aerospace Inc. Canada with 65 engineers reporting to him. From 1991 to 1993, while stationed in Orlando Florida, he assumed the overall responsibility for the production and delivery of ADATS missiles for the Canadian Forces.
Since 1994 he is employed by Siemens Switzerland Ltd as Vice President “Civil and National Security” – a division with focus areas on innovative Military and Homeland Security Solutions and Products – by October 2007 he became responsible to build up the Sales Organization for the Defense and Intelligence Portfolio of the overall Siemens AG activities and assumes today a senior position as Director Strategic Business Development in the Civil and National Security Division.
In 2004 he was elected President of the Swissmem Group “Security and Defense Technology” (Swissmem is the leading representative body of the Swiss electrical and engineering industries), in 2005 he also became a board member of the Swiss Society of Defence Technology (STA). Mr. Wieser is also a board member of EOS (European Organisation for Security) where Siemens is a proud founding member.
In his military career he is a full colonel of the Swiss Army reporting as a personal adviser directly to the Division Commander (Two Star General) – who is in charge, amongst other responsibilities, for disaster relieve and Homeland Security operations.
Abstract Border Control Management: Integrated national ID solutions for secure frontiers
Drastically increased mobility has a strong influence and impact on the IT and communication security of organizations. Border Control is viewed as a Process where the Flow of People, the Flow of Data and the Flow of Traffic needs to be governed and mastered in all situations.
Any new security policy that emerges must take due account of both national and international interests and protect the freedom of the individual as well as catering for the demands of commerce. In order for any new policy to be effective, high-tech solutions are required, exploiting modern technology such as PKI, multibiometrics-based identification and RFID transponders. The integration in “End to End system” solution with optimized workflows is key for governmental organizations.
Such systems must be secured, totally reliable and easy to operate and as a minimum have to implement ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) compatible solutions and technologies for personal identification in several different countries.
With this the aim is to provide:
- Tighter national security
- Greater efficiency and speedier processes due to simple and uniform border checks
- Reduced effort for border checks
- Automatic reading of ID and reliable identification
- Automatic license plate recognition of vehicles
- Cross checks with latest wanted persons in real time
- Low risk implementation thanks to solutions which have already proven their reliability and effectiveness in different countries
The presentation will focus on a clear and feasible holistic Security vision as the one promoted and proposed by SIEMENS which takes in consideration all security challenges which governments are facing. This vision considers and INTEGRATEs the technical systems and business flows in one “End to End solution” (Professional Mobile Radio) connected to Border control connected to Emergency management) using IT as common platform/layer.
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Energy Infrastructure Security: Security for smart energy grids
Critical Infrastructure 4.0 is highly complex, interconnected and dynamic and hence at high risk from criminal attacks. The whole of social and economic life, the major part of civil and national security, depends on Critical Infrastructure 4.0. and demands specific security solutions for complex IT and cyber-controlled energy networks, decentralized energy production and consumption units, as well as transmission and distribution solutions, communication networks, traffic, transportation networks, the setup of network units and other networks for supplying basic resources like water, food, healthcare products, finance, etc.
The smart energy grid (SEG) will be essential in the future for every other grid, e.g. traffic, communication, etc. It is totally dependent on IT and will be controlled and secured by web-based IT systems. This applies to energy transmission and distribution as well as the interfaces to energy-consuming and energy producing objects. Important technologies and applications for SEG security include IT-based surveillance solutions (sensors, CCTV, etc.), Web 4.0 observation and hacker, malware protection, SEG control centers and security management software, as well as SEG specific risk management applications.
The presentation will focus on SIEMENS’ strategies and recommendations to become prepared for all the challenges of protecting the Critical Infrastructure 4.0 in fields such as energy, traffic and transportation, communication and defense.
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