Merike Kaeo is the Chief Information Security Officer at IID. She led the first Cisco Security Initiative in the mid-90s and authored the first CiscoPress book on security. Merike has been helping secure IPv6 deployments for well over a decade and was made an IPv6 Forum Fellow in 2007 for her global contributions. She is a co-author of the RIPE-554 document and a frequent contributor and co-author to IETF standards.