Julien Mousnier
Director for Rule of Law, Fundamental Rights and Democracy
Biography
Organisation
European Commission - DG JUST
Speaker session
Session 11 : Addressing the resilience and cyber-security risks of election-related infrastructure
- Closed session
- Closed session
TOPIC: This session will review key challenges and measures to be taken to address the resilience of entities critical for the organisation and conduct of elections, including cyber-security risks including in the perspective of a tabletop exercise to be organised in late 2023 in the framework of the European Cooperation Network on Elections. It will also discuss the Election Resilience Mechanism. This session will look into practices in the identification, mitigation and management of risks to the electoral process including from cyber-attacks at EU and national level.
SPEAKERS:
- Evangelos Ouzounis, Head of Policy Development and Implementation Unit, European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)
- Patrick Penninckx, Head of the Information Society Department at the Council of Europe
MODERATOR: Florence Ranson
Interventions by Members of the European Cooperation Network on Elections
Evangelos Ouzounis
Head of Policy Development and Implementation Unit
Biography
Dr. Evangelos OUZOUNIS is the head of ENISA's Policy Development and Implementation Unit. His unit advises the Commission and Member States in the implementation of the NIS Directive, as well as, other sectorial policy initiatives (e.g. DORA and Electricity Network CODE) and facilitates the development of sectorial pan European information exchanges (e.g. Energy ISAC).
Dr. Ouzounis leads the Telecom and 5G security area and significantly contributed to the development of the 5G Toolbox. His team is responsible for the area of Trust Services/eIDAs and digital wallets.
Finally, Dr Ouzounis' unit is responsible for data protection and privacy and now develops a Cyber Security Policy Observatory to provide evidence-based recommendations to policy makers. Prior to his position at ENISA, Dr. Ouzounis worked several years at the European Commission (DG Connect) and co-founded FhG - FOKUS' Electronic Commerce Centre of Competence (ECCO) in Berlin, Germany.
Dr. Ouzounis holds a Ph.D from the Technical University of Berlin and a Master in Computer Science and Engineering from the Technical University of Patras, Greece.
Organisation
ENISA
Speaker session
Session 11 : Addressing the resilience and cyber-security risks of election-related infrastructure
- Closed session
- Closed session
TOPIC: This session will review key challenges and measures to be taken to address the resilience of entities critical for the organisation and conduct of elections, including cyber-security risks including in the perspective of a tabletop exercise to be organised in late 2023 in the framework of the European Cooperation Network on Elections. It will also discuss the Election Resilience Mechanism. This session will look into practices in the identification, mitigation and management of risks to the electoral process including from cyber-attacks at EU and national level.
SPEAKERS:
- Evangelos Ouzounis, Head of Policy Development and Implementation Unit, European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)
- Patrick Penninckx, Head of the Information Society Department at the Council of Europe
MODERATOR: Florence Ranson
Interventions by Members of the European Cooperation Network on Elections
Therese Pearce Laanela
Head of Programme, Electoral Processes
Stockholm
Biography
Organisation
International IDEA
Speaker session
Session 11 : Addressing the resilience and cyber-security risks of election-related infrastructure
- Closed session
- Closed session
TOPIC: This session will review key challenges and measures to be taken to address the resilience of entities critical for the organisation and conduct of elections, including cyber-security risks including in the perspective of a tabletop exercise to be organised in late 2023 in the framework of the European Cooperation Network on Elections. It will also discuss the Election Resilience Mechanism. This session will look into practices in the identification, mitigation and management of risks to the electoral process including from cyber-attacks at EU and national level.
SPEAKERS:
- Evangelos Ouzounis, Head of Policy Development and Implementation Unit, European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)
- Patrick Penninckx, Head of the Information Society Department at the Council of Europe
MODERATOR: Florence Ranson
Interventions by Members of the European Cooperation Network on Elections