About

Cesare Garlati is a renowned expert in information security. Former Vice President of mobile security at Trend Micro, Cesare is the founder of Hex Five Security and the inventor of MultiZone® Security, the quick and safe way to build high-grade security firmware for embedded systems. Cesare is a long-time supporter of open source  and open standards, an active member of the RISC-V Foundation, and the former Chief Security Strategist of the prpl Foundation.

Cesare has been frequently quoted in the press, including such media outlets as The Economist, Financial Times, The Register, The Guardian, ZD Net, SC Magazine, Computing and CBS News. An accomplished public speaker, Cesare also has delivered presentations and highlighted speeches at many tier-1 events, including Embedded World Conference, IoT World, Mobile World Congress, Gartner Security Summits, IDC CIO Forums, CTIA Applications, CSA Congress, DAC, IoT Innovation and many editions of the RSA Conference – the world’s leading information security event.

Cesare holds an MBA from U.C. Berkeley, a Master in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, professional certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Oracle, and he is a Fellow of the Cloud Security Alliance, where he founded and chaired the Mobile Security and IoT Security groups.

2021 – Appointed to the Program Committee Embedded World Conference 2022

2020 – Appointed to the Program Committee Embedded World Conference 2021

2019 – Appointed to the Program Committee RISC-V Summit USA 2019

2019 – Appointed Chair of IoT World Developer Conference 2019

2019 – Appointed Chair of the RISC-V Track at Embedded World Conference 2019

2018 – Appointed to the Program Committee Embedded World Conference 2019

2018 – Appointed Chair of IoT World Developers Conference 2018

2017 – Named Research Fellow of the Cloud Security Alliance

2016 – Named “Embedded Top Innovator 2016” (Embedded Computing Design)

2015 – Appointed Chief Security Strategist at prpl Foundation

2013 – Named “Mobile industry’s top 180 influencers” (VentureBeat)

2013 – Named “Top BYOD Blogger” (IDG)

2011 – Named “Top 10 Consumerization Thought Leaders”

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PUBLIC SPEAKING

Embedded World Conference 2022
June 21-23, 2022, Nuremberg, Germany
“Panel – The Chip Shortage: What We Can Do About It”

Embedded World Conference 2022
June 21-23, 2022, Nuremberg, Germany
“Secure Execution of Unmodified FreeRTOS Binaries”

Tiedemann Insights Panel
April 29, 2021, Online Event
“Cybersecurity: What You Need to Know and Do to Protect Yourself and Your Business”

Embedded World Conference 2021
March 1-5, 2021, Online Event
“Secure IoT Firmware For RISC-V”

Embedded World Conference 2021
March 1-5, 2021, Online Event
“Secure IoT Firmware For Cortex-M”

RISC-V Summit 2020
December 8-9, 2020, Online Event
“Secure IoT Firmware for RISC-V”

Embedded World Conference 2020
February 25-27, 2020, Nuremberg, Germany
“A clean slate approach to Linux security: RISC-V enclaves”

Embedded World Conference 2020
February 25-27, 2020, Nuremberg, Germany
“Multi zone security for for Cortex-M devices”

Embedded World Conference 2020
February 25-27, 2020, Nuremberg, Germany
“Class How to Secure a RISC-V System”

Embedded World Conference 2020
February 25-27, 2020, Nuremberg, Germany
“Class How to Secure a Cortex-M System”

RISC-V Summit 2019
December 10-11, 2019, San Jose – California
“RISC-V Enclaves: A Clean Slate Approach To Linux Security”

RISC-V Summit 2019
December 10-11, 2019, San Jose – California
“How to Secure RISC-V System in 90 minutes”

Microchip Shields UP!
December 4, 2019, Webinar
“Securing Mixed Criticality Systems”

RISC-V CON Beijing
November 14, 2019 – Beijing
“Making RISC-V The Most Secure Platform”

Micron Security Workshop
October 2019, San Jose – California
“Software-Defined Hardware-Isolation”

Microchip Shields UP!
October 9, 2019, Webinar
“Making RISC-V the most secure platform ever”

Intrinsic ID Security Summit 2019
October 7, 2019, San Jose – California
“RISC-V: A Clean Slate Approach to Hardware Security”

Hardware Security Conference 2019
September 26-27, 2019, The Hague – Netherlands
“How to Build & Secure a RISC-V Embedded System”

Open-Source Enclaves Workshop 2019
July 25, 2019, U.C. Berkeley, CA
“A free and open TEE API for RISC-V”

RISC-V Workshop Zürich 2019
June 11, 2019, Zürich, Switzerland
“RISC-V Security: A New Zero-Trust Model”

BrightTALK @IoT World 2019
May 14, 2019, Santa Clara, USA
“Webcast: IoT Security Best Practices and Solutions”

IoT World Conference 2019
May 15, 2019, Santa Clara, USA
“Panel: Best Practices for IoT Security”

IoT World Conference 2019
May 15, 2019, Santa Clara, USA
“Getting Started with RISC-V”

IoT World Conference 2019
May 15, 2019, Santa Clara, USA
“Chairman’s Opening Remarks: Developer Conference”

Embedded World Conference 2019
February 26, 2019, Nuremberg, Germany
“Maintaining Security In A Heterogeneous And Changing World”

Embedded World Conference 2019
February 26, 2019, Nuremberg, Germany
“A New Zero-Trust Model For Securing Embedded Systems”

Embedded World Conference 2019
February 26, 2019, Nuremberg, Germany
“User Mode Interrupts: A Must For Securing Embedded Systems”

Embedded World Conference 2019
February 26, 2019, Nuremberg, Germany
“How to Build a RISC-V Embedded System In Just 30 Minutes”

Embedded World Conference 2019
February 26, 2019, Nuremberg, Germany
“How to Secure a RISC-V Embedded System In Just 30 Minutes”

Embedded World Conference 2019
February 26, 2019, Nuremberg, Germany
“Trusted Execution Environments: A System Design Perspective”

RISC-V Summit 2018
December 4, 2018, Santa Clara, USA
“Making RISC-V the Most Secure Platform Ever”

Andes RISC-V CON
November 13, 2018, Santa Clara, USA
“Is RISC-V Ready for Your Design?”

Andes RISC-V CON
November 13, 2018, Santa Clara, USA
“Implementation for FPGA Solutions”

Smart Home Summit
November 6-7, 2018, San Francisco
“Breaking the impasse: Enterprises and Open Source”

Smart Home Summit
November 6-7, 2018, San Francisco
“Smart Home Interoperability”

RISC-V Bay Area Meetup
November 2, 2018, San Jose
“Making RISC-V the Most Secure Platform”

China Cloud CIO Summit
September 12-13, 2018, Shanghai
“Keynote: Device to cloud security”

Design Automation Conference
June 24-28, 2018, San Francisco
“RISC-V Software Tools Ecosystem”

Design Automation Conference
June 24-28, 2018, San Francisco
“RISC-V Market opportunity in IoT and AI”

IoT World
May 14-17, 2018, Santa Clara, CA USA
“Chairman’s Opening – Developers Conference”

IoT Build
Mar 27-28, 2018, San Francisco
“Keynote: The $1B Industry’s Path to Interoperability”

Embedded World Conference
Feb 27 – Mar 1, 2018, Nuremberg, Germany
“Embedded Hypervisors: Hype or Reality?”

Embedded World Conference
Feb 27 – Mar 1, 2018, Nuremberg, Germany
“Benchmarking Embedded Hypervisors”

Embedded World Conference
Feb 27 – Mar 1, 2018, Nuremberg, Germany
“PUF: A New Way to Establish Trust in Silicon”

Embedded World Conference
Feb 27 – Mar 1, 2018, Nuremberg, Germany
“OpenWRT: How to Build a Linux Embedded System”

Embedded World Conference
Feb 27 – Mar 1, 2018, Nuremberg, Germany
“Live Hacking of a Linux Home Gateway”

Smart Home Summit
November 15-16, 2017, Palo Alto, CA USA
“How to Secure the Smart Home”

Smart Home Summit
November 15-16, 2017, Palo Alto, CA USA
“Security at the edge: properly secured devices defending the home”

ARM TechCon
October 24-26, 2017, Santa Clara, CA USA
“Hypervisors: A Real Trend in Embedded, or Just Hype?”

SIIA – Deciphering IoT
July 25, 2017, San Francisco, CA USA
“Why IoT Security is so Critical”

IoT World
May 16-18, 2017, Santa Clara, CA USA
“IoT Security – Working together Towards a Trustworthy IoT”

IoT World
May 16-18, 2017, Santa Clara, CA USA
“The Only Way to do IoT Security: Layered Security”

IoT World
May 16-18, 2017, Santa Clara, CA USA
“Overcoming privacy obstacles in the Smart Home”

IoT DevCon
April 26-27, 2017, Santa Clara, CA USA
“How to Save the Smart Home from Cyber Invasion”

IoT Security Foundation
March 27, 2017, Santa Clara, CA USA
“In Silicon we Trust: How to Fix the Internet of Broken Things”

Embedded World Conference
March 14, 2017, Nuremberg, Germany
“How to fix embedded computing through Open Source”

Embedded World Conference
March 14, 2017, Nuremberg, Germany
“Hardware-based approach to embedded computing security”

Infosecurity Magazine Panel
February 2, 2017, London, UK
“Securing the Internet of Unnecessary Things”

IoT Security Foundation Conference
December 16, 2016, London, UK
“In Silicon we Trust: How to Fix the Internet of Broken Things”

RSA Conference
November 16, 2016, Abu Dhabi, UAE
“A new hardware-based approach to secure the Internet of Things”

The RANT Conference
November 3, 2016, London, UK
panel “The Internet of Things to be hacked”

Smart Home Summit
November 1, 2016, Palo Alto, US
panel “The imperative for transparency & trust”

IoT Security Summit
October 19, 2016, Boston, US
panel “Regulations and standards for IoT”

openWRT Summit
October 13, 2016, Berlin, DE
“Smart Home Security Report 2016”

Connect Security World
September 28, 2016, Marseilles, FR
“Critical security challenges in embedded computing”

Smart Summit London
September 22, 2016, London, UK
“How to fix the industrial IoT with silicon-layer security”
panel “Addressing Smart Home Security Concerns”

Cloud Connect China
September 21, 2016, Shanghai, CN
Keynote “A new hardware-level approach to fix the IoT”

IEEE SOCC Conference
September 8, 2016, Seattle, USA
“In silicon we trust – How to fix the IoT”

IoT Evolution
July 14, 2016, Las Vegas, USA
“Security by Separation in Embedded Devices”

Cloud Security Alliance Summit
May 18, 2016, Milan, Italy
Keynote “Securing the Internet of broken things”
Panel “Open Source Security”

IT Security Analyst and CISO Forum
April 19, 2016, London
Panel “How to keep IoT from damaging your business”

Imagination Summit Asia
November 13, 2015, Beijing, China
Keynote “Securing the Internet of (broken) Things”

Imagination Summit Asia
November 11, 2015, Shanghai, China
Keynote “Interoperable standards for IoT”

Embedded Linux Conference Europe
October 8, 2015, Dublin, Ireland
“Securing the Internet of (broken) Things”

Imagination Summit Asia
September 13, 2015, Taipei, Taiwan
“Securing the Internet of (broken) Things”

Imagination Summit Asia
September 11, 2015, Hsinchu, Taiwan
“Interoperable standards for IoT”

Imagination Summit Asia
September 9, 2015, Tokyo, Japan
“IoT Open Security Must Rule”

Infosecurity Magazine
July 7, 2015, Webinar
“Empower and Secure your Mobile Workforce”

Cloud and Mobile Security Forum
November 28, 2013, Stockholm
“BYOD and Mobile Security”

CSA Innovation Conference
July 18, 2013, Santa Clara, CA
“Cloud Security Innovation – How to Adopt It?”

SIIA AATC – All About The Cloud
May 7 – 9, 2013, San Francisco, CA
“Empowering Your Mobile Workforce”

Cloud Connect
April 2 – 5, 2013, Santa Clara, CA
“Security in the Mobile Cloud World”

VentureBeat Mobile Summit
April 1 – 2, 2013, San Francisco, CA
“What’s next for enterprise?”

AppNation
December 12, 2012 – San Francisco, CA
“The state of security in the mobile enterprise”

Mobile Device Security Conference
December 5 – 6, 2012 – London, UK
“Strategies for an enterprise MDM deployment”

Cloud Security Alliance Congress
November 7 – 8, 2012 – Orlando, FL
“Guidance on Mobile Computing and the Cloud”

RSA Conference
October 9-11, 2012 – London, UK
“Smartphone Security Winners & Losers”
“The Dark Side of BYOD”
“10 Reasons Not to Virtualize”

Mobile 2.0 Conference
September 11, 2012 – San Francisco, CA
“Mobile Enterprise & Consumerization of IT”

RSA Conference
August 28-29, 2012 – Chengdu, CN
“Smartphone Security Winners & Losers”

DIRECTION EXPO
August 7-8, 2012 – Tokyo, JP
“Mobile Security”

The Institution of Engineering and Technology
June 20, 2012 – London, UK
“Security for Mobile Devices”

Mobile Convention Amsterdam
May 8, 2012 – Amsterdam, NL
“Consumer Mobile Technology in the Enterprise: A leap of faith?”

TabTimes Tablet Strategy Conference
April 27, 2012 – New York, NY
“Secrets of a good corporate app”

Mobile World Congress
February 27 – March 1, 2012 – Barcelona, Spain
“Consumer technology in the enterprise: A leap of faith?”

IDC Enterprise mobileNext Forum
November 30 – December 1 2011, San Francisco, USA
“Mobility Management & Security ‐ A Customer Panel”

CTIA Enterprise Mobility Boot Camp
October 10 ‐ 13, 2011, San Diego, USA
“Consumerization Report 2011”

Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit
September 19–20 2011, London UK
“Embrace Consumerization. Unlock Opportunity”

Channel Link
September 14‐16 2011, Los Angeles USA
“Embrace Consumerization. Unlock Opportunity”

IDC CIO Summit
July 28‐29 2011, Singapore
“The Consumerization of IT: Embrace Consumerization, Unlock Opportunity”

Mobile Computing Summit
June 28‐30 2011, San Francisco USA
“Mobile Landscape Security Risks and Opportunities”

Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit
June 20–23 2011, Washington DC USA
“Virtualization, Consumerization, Security Three Worlds Collide?”