Mr. Marcus K. G. Adomey is a cybersecurity expert who has travelled the length and the breadth of Africa to train in Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) Creation and Management since 2010 as one of the AfricaCERT leading instructors. As an AfNOG track leader, he had trained a lot of engineers in Africa in Internet Scalable Services – mainly DNS, Web Servers, Mail servers, DHCP Server – under the AfNOG Localization program sponsored by ISOC.
Marcus’ flair for cryptography started as the beginning of the internet in Ghana. In 1996, he studied the book “Applied Cryptography of Bruce Schneier (1993) to master the art of using cryptography and later he studied the “Handbook of Applied Cryptography” by Menezes et al. (1996) to have the grasp of the mathematical foundation of cryptography. Most of the time, when he was studying for the award of his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in 1998, he was implementing the cryptographic algorithms in those books in assembly language. His end of study project work was on the implementation of International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA). Meanwhile cryptography was not part the courses thought at the undergraduate level at the University of Ghana where he studied for his BSc in Computer Science.
Marcus’s interest in internet and cybersecurity started during his master’s program in Computer and Communication Networks. After the various courses on internet protocols, he discovered that most of the protocols on which the internet runs have a lot of vulnerabilities raising the issues of security and need to be addressed in one way or the other. To be part of the solution process, he has developed interest in CSIRT Creation and Management.
Mr. Marcus K. G. Adomey works at the University of Ghana, Legon and teaches on part time basis in some of the private Universities in Ghana. He is also currently consulting as a Senior Cybersecurity Consultant for Expertise France on the project OCWAR-C (Organised Crime: West African Response on Cybersecurity and Fight Against Cybercrime). He holds a master’s degree in computer Science with specialization in Computer and Communication Networks from Telecom Sud-Paris, Evry in France. He is currently finalizing his PhD study in Aalborg University in Denmark.