EEMA, the independent not for profit, European think tank focussed on identification, authentication, privacy, risk management, cyber security, the Internet of Things and mobile applications, has presented Ronny Bjones with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Every year at the ISSE conference, EEMA bestows the accolade on one individual that has made a significant and lasting contribution to IT security. This year at ISSE in Paris, the 30-year career of Ronny Bjones was recognised. Currently the Director of Cloud Identity & Privacy Services at Microsoft Corporate, Belgium, Bjones joined the company in 2002 to become its EMEA security lead and more recently he kicked-off the design and development of Azure Active Directory B2C – a cloud-based consumer identity and access management service capable of managing billions of authentications. He is also the author of several books including the implementation of electronic signatures and best practice for applications using the electronic identity card.Former recipients of the EEMA Lifetime Achievement Award include Andrea Servida (European Commission), Kim Cameron (Microsoft), Roger Dean (Founder of EEMA) and Reinhard Posch (Austrian Federal Government).

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