Joachim Vance
Chief Security Architect, Distinguished Engineer, Verifone, Inc.
Joachim Vance is Chief Security Architect at Verifone, where he designed the payment system security and cryptography securing over 50 billion payment transactions for top US retailers. With 34 years of software development expertise, his focus includes cryptographic key management, enterprise authentication systems, biometrics, smartcards, and certificate management. Joachim actively shapes financial cryptography standards, serving on the PCI Board of Advisors and contributing to ANSI AES DUKPT and NIST format-preserving encryption standards. He's an inventor holding several patents in security, encryption, and authentication. A CISSP-certified professional since 2004, Joachim frequently speaks internationally and is widely published on cybersecurity topics.