Speaker profile

Personal information

  • Mr François Zamora
    Chief Security Officer
    European Division Orange

ABOUT

As Chief Security Officer for the Europe division of Orange, Francois is in charge of a multi-country security work streams to integrate security in IT and Network (ITN) transformation. Such transformation consists in introducing cloud technologies and infrastructures to support the future generations of telecommunications networks. To anticipate the effects on architecture design and on operations requirements coming from regulatory, standardization and certification, Francois is closely teaming with the entire ecosystem (European industry, standardisation bodies and institutional representatives).

Before joining Orange’s Technology and Global Innovation, Francois was successively at Orange’s Group Security Department where he lead the global security management system for the Group, one of the Group’s pillars for security governance in its Europe, Africa and the Middle East operations, the B2B division and spent two years in the United States in developing remote sensing business for mobile networks engineering.

Francois is member of various France-based professional clubs promoting risk management best practice such as the EBIOS Club, the CESIN, the Club of Business Continuity. He sits at President-elect of the French National Standardization Body national commission mirroring the joint ISO/IEC Sub-Committee 27 for the standardization of Information Security, Data protection and Privacy. Francois also provides lectures at University of Limoges, Telcom ParisTech and others institutions in France.