Franjo Majstor holds a University Electrical Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia and a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree from the Department of Computer Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Leuven (KUL), Belgium. He started his career in the IT industry back in 1989, at Iskra Computers and NIL Ltd. in Slovenia,  was with Cisco Systems, Inc. Belgium from 1995-2004, Fortinet, Inc. till 2005 and since 2006 is with CipherOptics, Inc.
As EMEA Sr. Technical Director at CipherOptics, Inc, he is responsible for driving to market the latest generation of data protection solutions. Previously at Fortinet, Inc, as Technical Director he was responsible for security products and solutions based on the modern perimeter security architecture, while with Cisco Systems, Inc he was recognized as a trusted advisor throughout  the EMEA for the leading security projects. He achieved a CCIE certification from Cisco Systems, Inc. in 1995 and CISSP certification from (ISC)² in 2000. Franjo is also external CISSP instructor at (ISC)² - international vendor neutral non-profit organization for certification of the information security professionals and is a mentor and recognized lecturer of an ICT Audit and Security Postgraduate study, joint program between ULB, UCL and Solvay Business School in Brussels, Belgium. 
As a recognized security professional he is also a frequent speaker at worldwide  conferences on network security topics. Most relevant so far were: NetSec (New Orleans 2001), IPsec Summit and IPv6 Global Summit (Paris 2002), ISSE (Vienna 2003), IEEE (Bonn 2003), RSA Security  (Paris 2002, Amsterdam 2003, Barcelona 2004, San Francisco 2005, San Jose 2006, Nice 2006) and IDC (London 2004, Prague 2005). On the RSA Security 2005, he was invited as an independent judge for the Perimeter Defense Track paper selections.
Last update: July 2008.