Scott Poretsky

Director for Security, Network Product Solutions at Ericsson North America

Scott Poretsky is Ericsson North America’s Director for Security, Network Product Solutions. He has over 25 years of industry experience in a variety of networking and security technologies. Scott is currently working in the areas of 5G security, Open RAN security, cloud security, and zero trust architectures. Scott currently serves as Co-Chair of the O-RAN Alliance’s Security Working Group (WG11), Co-Chair of the ATIS 5G Zero Trust Study Group, and Advisory Board Member for the IEEE ComSoc technical committee for Communications Quality and Reliability (CQR). He has represented Ericsson in government-industry collaboratives including the FCC CSRIC and NSA/CISA sponsored Enduring Security Framework (ESF). Scott has one patent, numerous published papers, and numerous invited talks. Scott is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Cloud Security Professions (CCSP). He earned an MSEE from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and BSEE from the University of Vermont.