ICMC 2025 has Kicked Off!

atsec US CEO, Dr. Yi Mao, gave a warm welcome to all attendees at ICMC 2025 in Toronto, Canada, where we are excited to see colleagues in the same profession again only six months after the last ICMC. It resets the conference time back to the pre-COVID era and, even with a shorter runway, the conference still offers 80+ presentations in eight tracks. While the conference is heavily loaded with post-quantum cryptography presentations, Dr. Mao acknowledged the CMUF being the driving force of the ICMC, highlighted the important work done by the NCCoE Automation of CMVP, and congratulated the new arrival of ISO/IEC 19790:2025 and ISO/IEC 24759:2025.

We brought along another animated clip featuring a short history of atsec’s birth, involvement with FIPS, and 13 years of community leadership since we founded the ICMC, so give it a watch (if you missed it) or a re-watch (if you already saw it):

https://www.atsec.cn/downloads/media/ICMC2025.mp4

atsec will, of course, have a plethora of presenters at the event: Between nine presentations and panels, we’ll have tons to offer attendees. You can find all of our presentation times below, and we hope to see you there.

Session	atsec Speaker	Time	Track
Welcome Address	Yi Mao	Tuesday, 09:00	Opening Plenary Session
ACMVP Project Update Panel	Stephan Müller, Yi Mao	Tuesday, 15:30	Certification
ACVTS for Global Adoption: Setting Up a Scheme-Specific ACVP Server	Joachim Vandersmissen	Tuesday, 15:30	Crypto Tech
NIST Special Publication 800-140BR1 Security Policy Format	Greg Burlea	Tuesday, 16:00	Crypto Tech
Fast-tracking Software Validations	Alessandro Fazio	Wednesday, 12:00	Certification
Certifying Quantum-Enhanced Entropy Sources: Navigating SP 800-90B with Novel Technology	Marcos Portnoi	Wednesday, 16:00	RBGs
Post-Quantum Algorithms: Side-Channel Analysis	Stephan Müller	Wednesday, 16:30	PQ Technology
Beyond the Certificate: Pursuing Full FIPS Compliance in Cryptographic Products	Joachim Vandersmissen	Thursday, 11:45	Implementations
FIPS Fun with the CMUF: Honoring History, Inspiring Tomorrow	Renaudt Nunez	Thursday, 12:30	Closing Plenary Session

atsec Presentations. All times are in Toronto local time (US Eastern Time).

As founder and a platinum sponsor of the ICMC, we’d be remiss to not have an amazing booth onsite, so you can find us at the easy-to-remember booth 22 – make sure to come say hello and check out what we have on show!