Christoph Kern is a software engineer in Google's Information Security Engineering team.  He leads a team focused on the prevention and mitigation of security vulnerabilities in Google's applications and services through framework, API, and platform design.

Christoph is a founding contributor to the IEEE Computer Society Center for Secure Design (CSD[link: http://cybersecurity.ieee.org/center-for-secure-design.html]), and serves on the CSD's steering committee.