Eddy Willems
Security Evangelist
About
Press biography see below and see also Wikipedia English, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and the website www.eddywillems.be .
Eddy Willems is a worldwide known cyber security expert from Belgium. In 1989 he became interested in viruses due to an incident with the AIDS Information Trojan, the first ransomware. He still owns one of the last remaining copies worldwide. He became a founding member of EICAR in 1991, one of the world’s first security IT organizations. In 1995 he became a participant of Joe Wells’ Virus Wildlist. He wrote the “Virus Article” for the US Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia edition 1997. In May 2000 the Belgian Government started with the E-Security Team on the BIPT-IBPT governmental Website. This early CERT-team provided quick and accurate security information for the Belgian people. Willems was the only known security expert in this team.
Currently he is a board member of 3 security industry organizations, EICAR, AVAR and LSEC, and is the resident Security Evangelist and Global Security Officer at G DATA CyberDefense. He is also Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Clean Software Alliance (CSA).
Over the years he has served in many extra roles in different security industry organizations and security companies. Several CERTs, press agencies, print and online publications and broadcasting media, for example CNN, use his advice regularly. For the past three decades, he has been the cyber security expert from Belgium who has been most frequently quoted internationally.
In October of 2013, he published his first book in Belgium and the Netherlands, entitled 'Cybergevaar' (Lannoo). A German translation followed afterwards and an English translation and update, Cyberdanger (Springer), was published in 2019. He is also co-author together with co-author Alain Dierckx of the Dutch SF cyberthriller ‘Het Virus’ published in 2020.
Eddy is a known inspiring speaker and is giving lectures and presentations (including TEDx) worldwide for a very diverse audience from children to experts. You can book him for an inspiring keynote or lecture via the speakers offices: Read My Lips, Speakersbase, All American Speakers, Speaking(.com) and A-Speakers.
Eddy has given lectures and keynotes in over 40 countries in 5 continents around the world.
Contact Information
Professional Email
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Personal Email
edd****@wavci.com
Work Phone
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Mobile
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Local Location
Zemst, Flemish Region, Belgium
Website
https://www.eddywillems.be, https://www.hetvirus.com, https://www.gdatasoftware.com
Industry
Computer and Network Security
Designation
Security Evangelist
Birthday
September 19
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