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Hi, I am Peter

Peter van Liesdonk

Senior Consultant Cyber Security Technologies at TNO

I am an consultant, architect and researcher in product security with a background in applied cryptography and mathematics.

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP)
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

Experiences

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TNO

Sep 2025 - Present

Eindhoven, Nederland

The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research is an independent statutory research organisation in the Netherlands that focuses on applied science. It conducts contract research, offers specialist consulting services, and grants licenses for patents and specialist software. TNO also sets up new companies to market innovations.

Senior Consultant Cyber Security Technologies

Sep 2025 - Present

ASML

Jul 2022 - Aug 2025

Veldhoven, Nederland

ASML manufactures complex lithography systems critical to the production of microchips, unlocking the potential of people and society by pushing technology to new limits.

Senior Product Security Architect

May 2021 - Aug 2025

Product Owner Product Security

Aug 2024 - Jan 2025

Technical Competence Owner - Product Security

Jul 2023 - Nov 2024

Function Cluster Architect - Product Security

Feb 2023 - Dec 2023

Technical Competence Lead - Product Security

Jul 2022 - Jul 2023

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Philips Research

Dec 2014 - Apr 2021

Eindhoven, Nederland

At Philips, our purpose is to improve people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation. We aim to improve 2.5 billion lives per year by 2030, including 400 million in underserved communities. As a technology company, we – and our brand licensees – innovate for people with one consistent belief: there’s always a way to make life better.

Senior Research Scientist Digital Security

Jan 2021 - Apr 2021

Research Scientist Digital Security

Dec 2014 - Dec 2020

HL7

Sep 2018 - Apr 2021

Founded in 1987, Health Level Seven International (HL7) is a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited standards developing organization dedicated to providing a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical practice and the management, delivery and evaluation of health services.

Contributor to Security Working Group

Sep 2018 - Apr 2021

Responsibilities:
  • Standardization work on privacy management and enforcement w.r.t GDPR.
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Storage Networking Industry Association

Apr 2015 - Jun 2018

SNIA is a not-for-profit organization that develops international standards and specifications. SNIA promotes technologies related to the storage, transport, optimization of infrastructure, acceleration, format, and protection of data.

Contributor Cloud Storage Technical Working Group

Apr 2015 - Jun 2018

Responsibilities:
  • Design of several cryptographic extensions for the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) standard to enable transparant object storage encryption and delegatable access control in hybrid cloud models.
Compumatica secure networks

Dec 2011 - Nov 2013

Uden, Nederland

Compumatica is an independent Dutch cybersecurity manufacturer in the field on encryption (network- & e-mail encryption) and network security/segmentation (firewall & diode technology). The solutions have different certifications from The Netherlands, European Union, and NATO.

Cryptographer / Security Architect

Dec 2011 - Nov 2013

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Eindhoven University of Technology

Oct 2007 - Oct 2011

Eindhoven, Nederland

TU/e is a piblic technical university in the Netherlands, siturated in Eindhoven.

PhD position on the STW/Sentinels project "Searchable Data Encryption"

Oct 2007 - Oct 2011

Responsibilities:
  • Research focused mostly on provably secure cryptographic protocols with an application in cloud computing.
  • Keywords: identity-based encryption, attribute-based encryption, predicate encryption, public-key encryption with keyword search.