John Thielens

John Thielens is Axway’s Chief Security Officer. He oversees Axway’s advanced research and the architecture team’s activities related to cloud computing and deployment. He‘s active in Axway’s patent development programme and works closely with the security office to develop new solutions.

John’s background in B2B and Managed File Transfer technologies started in the early nineties as corporations started to interconnect over X.400 and continued through the rapid conversion to the Internet, working with tools to manage the security of technologies like SMTP, S/MIME, FTP, PGP, SSH and AS2 as they gained enterprise adoption.

John is a frequent speaker at local, national and international events, including RSA Conferences, Gartner ITxpo Symposium and InfoSecurity.