Erna Catic is in the Hybrid Threats and Cyber Division of the European External Action Service (EEAS). In her role, she works on Cyber Capacity Building Policy and is the focal point at the EEAS for the cooperation on cyber and hybrid issues with the Western Balkans and the Eastern Partnership region (particularly Moldova and Ukraine), as well as US and Canada. Prior to her secondment to the EEAS, she was the German Cyber Attaché to NATO and worked on the International Relations team of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in Bonn. Erna holds a Master’s degree in European Studies from King’s College London.
This session reviews plans to improve the cybersecurity of the European Union’s critical infrastructure, including Commission President Ursula VON DER LEYEN’s proposal for a Preparedness Union Strategy. It also discusses cybersecurity capacity assistance to Ukraine via the Tallinn Mechanism as well as the future of cybersecurity cooperation within and between the EU and NATO.
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Coordinator for Cyber Issues and Deputy Head of the Hybrid Threats and Cyber Division
European External Action Service (EEAS)
President and Chief Executive Officer
Rapid7
Cyber Strategist
Visiting NSI Fellow at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia Law School
Director of Programs
National Security Institute at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
Vice President for Government Relations
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