Dr. Andreas Mitrakas

Webit Speaker, Head of Unit – Data Security & Standardisation, ENISA

Dr. Andreas Mitrakas, LL.M. (QUB), M.Sc. (Port) is currently Head of Unit – Data Security & Standardisation in the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA). He has previously been a Senior Legal Practices Manager in Ubizen/Cybertrust (currently, Verizon), a pioneer in managed information security services; he has also been Head of Legal Practices and General Counsel in GlobalSign NV/SA, the leading certification authority.

A trained lawyer (Athens Bar), Andreas has contributed to European standardisation at CEN and ETSI in such areas as electronic signatures, electronic invoicing etc. and he has been Chair of the CEN/ISSS standardisation workshop on Cyber-Identity for business. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and he is a member inter alia of ISACA and EC-Council.