Kai-Fan Chang

Assurance Unknown

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Assurance Unknown, a podcast about all the untold stories in the high assurance IT product security evaluation and certification industry. This is a podcast hosted by Kai-Fan Chang, who worked in IT product security evaluation and certification for about 20 years. I will interview the people who are in my view a big part of my personal journey in this industry and also people who helped shaping this industry. There is no way to predict or plan the future without knowing the past. And I am curious about all the unknown stories, to me, along the way. I am welcoming you to join my journey to disc...

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Kai-Fan Chang

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Assurance Unknown with Kai-Fan Chang, Chuankai Gao & Hungwei Chen 26.06.2026 1:17:56

In this episode I had a discussion in a tea house with Dr. Gao from the IT security department in Institute of Information Industry in Taiwan and Hungwei Chen previously from Winbond. They shared their stories with high assurance security evaluation and the difficulties in promoting security evaluation in an ecosystem. Security is generally considered a cost for the developer and I have yet to see...

Assurance Unknown with Kai-Fan Chang and Ernst Bovelander 29.05.2026 1:42:52

Welcome to the second episode of Assurance Unknown. My guest for this episode is Ernst Bovelander. Ernst was the CEO of Brightsight for many years and played quite an important role for both Brightsight and for my career. In the interview we went into his career from his first job at the hardware security group of TNO, which became Brightsight. And his return to Brightsight to take over one of the...

Assurance Unknown with Kai-Fan Chang and Martin Schaffer 21.04.2026 1:16:00

Welcome to the first episode of Assurance Unknown podcast, a podcast about the untold stories of the high assurance security evaluation and certification industry. My guest of this episode is Martin Schaffer. We touched upon different topics in this episode including: The career path of Martin in this industry and how he created a dedicated security evaluation and certification department in NXP W...