Scott Poretsky

Security Policy & Standards Director

Ericsson

North America

Scott Poretsky is Ericsson North America’s Director for Security in the Strategy and Technology team. He has over 30 years of industry experience in a variety of networking and security technologies.

Scott is currently working on 5G security, Open RAN security, cloud security for critical infrastructure, and zero trust architectures. Scott is Co-Chair of O-RAN Alliance’s Security Working Group (WG11), Security Co-Lead for the ATIS Open RAN MVP, and Advisory Board Member for the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee for Communications Quality and Reliability (CQR).

He previously served as Co-Chair of ATIS Study Group on Zero Trust for 5G. Scott represents Ericsson at FCC CSRIC and NSA Enduring Security Framework (ESF) working groups. Scott has one patent and numerous published papers and is a frequent invited speaker. Scott is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP). He earned an MSEE from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and BSEE from the University of Vermont.