Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder

What are the keys to the internet and how are they protected?

To protect one of the most important parts of the internet, the domain name system, the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) invented Secure DNS, or DNSSEC. During my presentation I will go through the role of cryptographic keys in securing the DNS, how we safely store and use the trust anchor, give an overview of normal operations, explain the adaptations we’ve made for COVID-19, and the role of trusted community representatives. And tell you about my life as crypto officer.

About

Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder has been Chief Information Security Officer at Internetstiftelsen, the Internet Foundation in Sweden for almost 20 years. She is ranked as one of Sweden’s leading experts on IT security. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), Section XII, Information Technology, a board member of the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket), the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (Försvarets Materielverk), the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket), .IE (the Irish top level domain administrator) and the Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute (IRI).

She is furthermore a member of the information security council of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) and a member of the Swedish National Digitalisation Council (Digitaliseringsrådet), an advisory board to the Swedish government.

As Trusted Community Representative in the role as a Crypto Officer she participates in the DNSSEC key generation for the internet root zone, appointed by the international organization ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). She is also a member of RSTEP (Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel), appointed by ccNSO, a part of ICANN.