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Fernando Gont has over twenty years of industry experience in the fields of Internet engineering and information security, working for private and governmental organizations from around the world.

Before joining Yalo, he was a security consultant and researcher at SI6 Networks (), Director of Information Security at EdgeUno (), and consulted for organizations such as the UK National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC), the UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), and Huawei Technologies Ltd.

Gont has been active in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for over 15 years, and has published over 35 IETF RFCs (Request For Comments) and more than a dozen IETF Internet-Drafts ()

Gont has also been involved in a number of open source projects, including the SI6 Network's IPv6 Toolkit () -- a portable and comprehensive security assessment toolkit for the IPv6 protocol suite, and the IoT-toolkit ( -- a security assessment toolkit for IoT devices. He has also contributed to the OpenBSD and FreeBSD operating systems, and the Linux kernel.

Gont has been a speaker at a number of conferences and technical meetings about information security, operating systems, and Internet engineering, including: CanSecWest 2005, FIRST Technical Colloquium 2005, Kernel Conference Australia 2009, DEEPSEC 2009, HACK.LU 2011, Hackito Ergo Sum 2012, Hack In Paris 2013, German IPv6 Kongress 2014, H2HC 2017, and Troopers 2018. Additionally, he is a regular attendee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meetings.

More information about Fernando Gont is available at his personal web site: .