Speaker Bio
Jason Boswell, as Ericsson North America’s Vice President and Head of End-to-End Security in its Networks organization, is dedicated to upholding the supply chain integrity, network resiliency & communications security of global ICT infrastructure.
Mr. Boswell brings 25 years of experience from within the domains of telecommunications security design, engineering, consulting, sales and thought leadership for global service providers, governments and enterprises.
He is a CISSP and is known in the industry as an expert and frequent speaker on wireless (3G, 4G, 5G), threat intel, software assurance, supply chain integrity and core network security. He currently represents Ericsson on numerous industry groups, councils and committees, including as an NSTAC POC and past subcommittee co-leader, voting member of the CSCC Executive Committee, DHS ICT SCRM Task Force and 5G Security Test Bed, Vice-Chair of Program Development at IEEE CQR, and contributor to the FCC CSRIC, ESF, CTIA CSWG and NSIE. He has also provided testimony in 5G and supply chain security matters on behalf of Ericsson to U.S. House and Senate Committees.
He has worked with many technology types and network architectures, bringing a diverse and deep background to the table from various angles. He has worked in “next gen” telecom since land lines began migrating to Voice over Frame Relay and in network security since the early days of stateless firewalls & manual IPSec.
Before joining Ericsson, Mr. Boswell’s career began at Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs, as a Distinguished Member of Consulting Staff. He was the Head of Security Sales, North America, at Nokia Siemens Networks and later was a Chief Architect, North America, for Global Service Providers at Symantec Corporation.