Bernd Kowalski was born on March 22nd 1954 in Siegen, Germany. He visited university at the Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen. In 1982 he joined Deutsche Telekom and worked first in the area of data communication networks. He was a member of the ITU standardization activities for Electronic Mail and Directory Systems (X.400 / X.500) and one of the editors of X.509, one of the first PKI-standards.

In 1990 he became product manager and head of the Productcenter Telesec of Deutsche Telekom, that provided secure communication products and services, e. g. Certificate and Smartcard Services for public Digital Signature and corporate security solutions for business customers.

In 2002 he changed to the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in Bonn and took over a division that is responsible for Technical Standardization, Certification, Conformity Testing and development of Protection Profiles and Technical Recommendations in the field of Information Security.

He is in charge of the division “Cyber Security for Digitization and Electronic Identities” since April 2019 and lead the division division “Certification and Standardization” from April 2019 to April 2020. His activities covers all aspects of BSI-certifications (till April 2020), certain ID-solutions and the support of the Digitalization projects of the Federal Government, Security aspects in the upcoming public 5G mobile networks, and cyber security aspects of eHealth and Smart Metering / Smart Grids, Industry 4.0, intelligent transport systems and the digital administration.

Bernd Kowalski is chairman of the Management Committee of the European Agreement of Mutual Recognition of IT-security product certificates (SOGIS-MRA) and member of the Management Committee of the international Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement (CCRA). He has been involved in the negotiation of the Certification Framework of the European Cybersecurity Act (CSA) and supports establishment of first European certification schemes.

Ms Pattinson is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP). She earned her M.Sc. in “Computing for Commerce and Industry” from the U.K.’s Open University.  She serves on the U.S. INCITS CS1 committee “Cyber Security” and works on the ISO SC27 WG3 “Security Techniques” working on Common Criteria and other security standards. She is currently the ISO Project Editor for several parts of ISO/IEC 15408.

Ms Pattinson’s IT career began in 1984 with assembly language programming, and progressed through operations management, technical support, systems analysis, new-business development, software-development quality and information-security assurance.

Ms Pattinson has worked for 15 years with a leading Common Criteria laboratory and is currently employed with a major developer of IT products as part of the security engineering team with responsibility for product security certifications.

Dr Domenico Ferrara works for the Cybersecurity Technologies and Capacity Building Unit at the European Commission, where he joined in 2016. He is closely involved in the implementation of the 5G Recommendation the Cybersecurity Act (particularly in the set-up of the EU-wide cybersecurity certification framework). Domenico is also working on the implementation the Directive on the security of Networks and Information Systems (NIS) in the energy sector.

Domenico previously worked for two Brussels-based consultancies advising clients in the tech sector, and for the Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA) of the European Parliament. He holds a Ph.D in International Studies from Warwick University (UK) and a Master’s degree in Government in the EU from the London School of Economics (UK).

Cord Bartels works for the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) in the area of cybersecurity certification. His presentation planned for this event reports on current activities for the preparation of sectoral cybersecurity certification schemes.

Cord joined ENISA in 2019. In his professional career, he has held various technical and managerial positions in the fields of semiconductors, health, ID and telecommunications. Cord has contributed to ISO’s standardization work for many years, mainly in ISO TC 204, but also in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 17. His most recent project was editing the the latest edition of ISO 24014-1.

Dr. Andreas Mitrakas is a Head of Unit “Data Security and Standardisation” in the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). He supports the work of the Agency on cybersecurity certification, standardisation, security measures in personal data, implementation of the eIDAS Regulation and CSIRT/Law Enforcement Agencies’ cooperation. He co-chairs the Stakeholders Cybersecurity Certification Group (SCCG).

Prior to joining ENISA, Andreas, a licensed attorney, served as General Counsel in Globalsign and as a Senior Counsel in Verizon (Ubizen).

Andreas holds a Ph.D. in Law, IT and business procedures (Erasmus University Rotterdam), a Master’s (LL.M.) degree in Computer science and Law (Queen’s University of Belfast), a Master’s (M.Sc.) in Strategic Quality Management (University of Portsmouth) and a First Degree in Law (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens).

Dr Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski is an assistant professor at Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science. His scientific interests includes discrete mathematics, algorithms, network modelling, optimization.

Adam Komorowski is a PhD student in the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science at the Warsaw University of Technology. He is a mathematician in the National Cyber Security Centre. Currently, his research interest focuses mainly on Modes Theory and generalizations of convex sets. His other areas of interest include Codes-Based Cryptography, Lattice-Based Cryptography, and general theoretical mechanics connecting these two types of Post-Quantum Cryptography.

Marco Peressotti is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern Denmark, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Marco serves as event coordinator of the Microservices Community. He received his Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science from the University of Udine, Italy in 2017. Marco’s research mission is to make it more effective and robust to program and analyse concurrent systems. An overarching theme of his research approach is the use of formal methods and programming languages techniques as well as the aim for a unifying mathematical perspective rooted in logic and category theory.

Jarosław Tworóg graduated from the Faculty of Electronics of the Warsaw University of Technology. He started his professional career as a research worker at his alma mater, specialising in the design and measurement of microwave equipment. His work at the university ended with obtaining a doctoral degree.

He was a co-founder of a company manufacturing cable TV active equipment, in which for 10 years he held the position of director of the engineering department, member of the board, and, subsequently, president of the board. As a board member and technical director in telecommunications and energy companies, he managed the construction of telecommunications networks, both wired and wireless. Currently he is involved with consulting.

He is a technical expert in the field of electron technology, electronics and ICT. He prepares positions and opinions of KIGEiT regarding the development of innovation and regulations that aim to facilitate the entry of new technologies to the market. In public debates, he presents the views of ICT industry enterprises on actions to increase added value in the economy. He has extensive experience in setting course of the development of the digital industry. He educates on the business value of the digital convergence process with other technical fields. He conducts conferences, seminars and lectures on the impact of digitisation on innovation in all its forms.

Moreover, he promotes knowledge about the possibilities of increasing productivity through an integrated approach to the digitisation of enterprises and organisations. He presents Industry 4.0 as one of the manifestations of the emergence of a new organization of socio-economic life – a knowledge society. He believes that the prerequisite for creating conditions for the development of the Internet of Things in Poland is allowing the widest range of intelligent services to be marketed, which will accelerate the entry into the next generation of broadband networks (5G, NGA) and their profitability.He started his professional career as a research worker at his alma mater, specialising in the design and measurement of microwave equipment. His work at the university ended with obtaining a doctoral degree.

He was a co-founder of a company manufacturing cable TV active equipment, in which for 10 years he held the position of director of the engineering department, member of the board, and, subsequently, president of the board. As a board member and technical director in telecommunications and energy companies, he managed the construction of telecommunications and teletransmission networks, both wired and wireless. Currently he is involved with consulting.

He is a technical expert in the field of electron technology, electronics and ICT. He prepares positions and opinions of KIGEiT regarding the development of innovation and regulations that aim to facilitate the entry of new technologies to the market. In public debates, he presents the views of ICT industry enterprises on actions to increase added value in the economy. He has extensive experience in setting course of the development of the digital industry. He educates on the business value of the digital convergence process with other technical fields. He conducts conferences, seminars and lectures on the impact of digitisation on innovation in all its forms.

Moreover, he promotes knowledge about the possibilities of increasing productivity through an integrated approach to the digitisation of enterprises and organisations. He presents Industry 4.0 as one of the manifestations of the emergence of a new organization of socio-economic life – a knowledge society. He believes that the prerequisite for creating conditions for the development of the Internet of Things in Poland is allowing the widest range of intelligent services to be marketed, which will accelerate the entry into the next generation of broadband networks (5G, NGA) and their profitability.

He is the author of the concept of building a Polish industrial specialisation in the ICT industry based on production of equipment for smart power grids and for the micro-energy installations market. He calls for providing significant funds for the development of energy storage being an indispensable element of energy and automotive systems based on digital technologies. He is one of the initiators of creating the I-USER technology platform, and the main author of the I-USER sectoral programme concept, supporting the development of devices for community power generation and smart home networks. He’s the main author of KIGEiT’s Programme for Digital Development of Industry and Infrastructure. He provided a vision of innovative digitisation, which will be driven by the widespread implementation of artificial intelligence technology. He perceives it as a cluster of technologies and refers to it as “technologies of thinking”. He was a co-author of the report on the impact of the availability of broadband networks on the growth of enterprises’ innovativeness.

As part of the Industrial Transformation Team working with the Minister of Development, he proposed a set of legislative changes that will contribute to the growth of innovation in the SME sector.

He was a member of the Council of the Polish Committee for Standardisation and the Council of Informatisation for the three terms of office with the minister responsible for digitisation.

PhD of Technical Sciences, graduate of the Faculty of Electronics at the Warsaw University of Technology. Outstanding Polish and international expert in the field of information security management, security architecture, cyber security evaluation.

She is the author of numerous publications and reports and a presenter and lecturer at various conferences and workshops devoted to cyber security-related issues in Poland and abroad.

A leading auditor of information security management systems, with many years of practical experience in more than 100 ICT security audits.

Editor of international and European standards on information security and cyber security evaluation.

An expert of ENISA since 2017, she is the author of studies and expert reviews in the area of cyber security.

She manages the R&D project “National evaluation and certification system according to the Common Criteria”. (KSO3C).

Andreas Fuchsberger is a Standards Officer in Microsoft’s Corporate Standards Group. He participates in the international and European standards community, predominantly in SC 27 (Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection) and SC 42 (Artificial intelligence) of ISO/IEC JTC 1 and in JTC 13 (Cybersecurity and data protection) of CEN/CENELEC. In his 20+ years engagement in SC 27 he has been an editor or co-editor of multiple international standards, most recently for 27009, Sector-specific application of ISO/IEC 27001 — Requirements.

For CEN/CENELEC JTC 13 Andreas is currently Convenor for WG 4 (Cybersecurity services), which is currently developing a new European Standard (EN) on Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) – Requirements, further actively engaged in WG 1 (Management systems and controls sets) and WG 6 (Product security).

Since March 2020 Andreas has been an appointed expert to ENISA’s Ad Hoc Working Group (AHWG) for Cloud Services, contributing to the design and creation of a new Cloud Services cybersecurity certification scheme with expected publication in 2021.

Andreas is a registered Chartered Engineer (CEng) of the Engineering Council UK as well as a EUR ING of Fédération Européenne d’Associations Nationales d’Ingénieurs (FEANI) and holds bachelor and masters degrees from Royal Holloway, University of London and University of Salzburg.

He is currently the team leader of the security assurance scheme research team at Cyber Physical Security Research Center (CPSEC) at the National Institute
of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). His main research area is information security. His research focuses on security certification schemes, lightweight cryptography, hardware security, secure system design. His favorite cryptographic mechanism is Lesamnta-LW hash function adopted in ISO/IEC 29192-5 (2016) that he co-designed.

He received the B.S. degree from Meiji University, Japan, in 1999, the M.S. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium, in 2013. From 2001 to 2016, he was with the Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd.

Since 2007, he has contributed to develop four standards as the project leader (editor) in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27/WG2 and he currently serves the Convener Support of this working group. In 2013, he won the award of industrial standardization that has been granted by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).

He gave lectures on cryptology and secure system design at the University of Fukui in Japan in 2017 as a visiting lecturer.
He is a member of IACR, IPSJ, and JSAE.

Dr. Andreas Wolf studied mathematics and computer science at Humboldt University in Berlin and Technical University Munich, where he received his doctorate in computer science in 1999. In his dissertation, he dealt with parallel automated reasoning, a special aspect of artificial intelligence. In the past, he worked in technology-oriented positions with IT companies in Munich, Jena and Berlin, focusing on IT security and in particular on biometric technologies. He initiated the first European certification of a product for biometric speaker recognition according to Common Criteria. Today Dr. Wolf works as Principal Scientist Biometrics with Bundesdruckerei GmbH, Berlin. He has published several book and journal contributions as well as conference papers and received more than 20 patents. He teaches applied biometrics at the Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science of the Free University of Berlin. He is one of the German DIN experts delegated to the ISO/IEC JTC 1 committees SC 17, SC 27, SC 31 and SC 37 and to the European standardization committee CEN/TC 224. He is chairman of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 “Information security, cybersecurity and data protection”, convenor of CEN/TC 224/WG 19 “Breeder documents” and editor or co-editor of several standards, including the ICAO Technical Report on Portrait Quality and the biometric face image data formats ISO/IEC 19794-5/39794-5 which are used in all electronic ID documents.

Mr. Takeshi Chikazawa is Convenor of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27/WG 2 (Cryptography and security mechanisms). He has more than 25 years of experience in the SC 27/WG 2 and its Japanese mirror committee. He is Senior Chief Researcher at IPA (Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan) and Manager at Information Technology R&D Center of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. He is a member of Advisory Board for Cryptographic Technology in CRYPTREC (Cryptography Research and Evaluation Committees, which is a project evaluating and monitoring the security of Japanese e-Government recommended ciphers). He was before involved in 3GPP and the editor for 3GPP TS33.105 (Cryptographic algorithm requirements). He was also the leader of S3 (Security) adhoc group under IMT-2000 Committee in ARIB (the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses) in 1999 until 2007. In other fields except information security, he is an advisor of the Japanese mirror committee for ISO/TC 268/SC 1 (Smart Community Infrastructures) and a supporting member for IEC Vice-President from Japan.

Jan Schallaböck, attorney-at-law, is a partner at Berlin based law-firm iRights.Law and is in charge of the data protection and compliance practice of the firm. Before joining iRights.Law, he was employed with the Data Protection Authority of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein. His commitment to international standardization also stems from this context. Jan is chairman of ISO PC 317 on “Consumer protection: privacy by design for consumer goods and services”, and he also serves as support for the Convener of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27/WG 5. He studied law in Marburg and Berlin, with a major in European and International Law. Part of his legal training was at the Foreign Service, at the embassy in Almaty, Kazakhstan, as well as the unit for ICT-regulation at the Berlin headquarters. During different stages of Legal Training at law firms, he was also involved with questions of Internet governance, copyright, freedom of speech and arbitration.

Dr. Qin QIU is the task leader of several security and privacy standards on mobile Apps, IoT and 5G in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27, ITU-T SG 17 and GTI. She is the Convenor of the advisory group ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27/AG 6 (Operations) and represents SC27 in ISO/IEC JTC 1/AG 17 (Meeting guidelines-SD 19). Professionally, she is a senior project manager in China Mobile Communications Group Co. Ltd. and member of its Technical Advisory Committee. The projects she involved won Champion Project Prizes of World Summit on the Information Society granted by ITU. She was awarded the title of outstanding contribution to standardization by National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee, and Prominent Female by China Communications Enterprise Association. In the field of IoT, she is the editor of ISO/IEC 27403 (Security and privacy on IoT-domotics), member of SC 27 WG 4 Ad-hoc Group on IoT security standards, and takes the lead in several IoT research and application projects in China

Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security (www.m-chair.de) at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2002. Visiting Professor National Institute for Informatics (Tokyo, Japan) since 2012. 1999-2002 with Microsoft Research Cambridge focussing on Personal Security Devices & Privacy Technologies“.
Since 1991 active in ISO/IEC standardization in JTC 1/SC 27/WG 3 “Security evaluation criteria”. Since 2007 Convenor of SC 27/WG 5 “Identity management and privacy technologies”. 2015/16 Chair of the Strategic Advisory Group on Industry 4.0/Smart manufacturing of the ISO Technical Management Board.
2004-2013 academic expert in the Management Board of EU Network and Information Security Agency, ENISA; 2013 till 2020 member ENISA’s Advisory Group (till 2019 named Permanent Stakeholder Group).
Chair CEPIS (www.cepis.org) Legal & Security Issues Special Interest Network since 2003. Since 2015 Vice President IFIP (www.ifip.org).
Kai has been coordinating several leading EU research projects, e.g. the Network of Excellence “Future of Identity in the Information Society (FIDIS)” and the Integrated Project “Attribute based Credentials for Trust” (ABC4Trust). Currently he is coordinating CyberSec4Europe, a pilot for the European Cybersecurity Competence Network the EU is aiming for.
Kai’s research interests include:
– Mobile and embedded systems and Multilateral Security in e.g. M-Business, LBS, transport systems, and industrial applications
– Privacy and identity management, especially attribute based authorisation
– Communication infrastructures and devices, e.g. personal security assistants and services;
– Security and privacy standardisation, evaluation, and certification.

Dr. Walter Fumy is Chief Scientist at Bundesdruckerei, Berlin, Germany, where he is responsible for driving strategic innovation and standardization policy in the area of ICT security. Dr. Fumy has published more than 100 papers and several books on a wide range of IT security topics. He is regular speaker at major conferences and events, and member of many conference program committees and advisory boards.

For more than 30 years, Dr. Fumy plays an active role in the international standardization of ICT security. Between 1996 and 2018 he was the chairperson of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 “IT Security Techniques”. In recognition of his long standing leadership he was awarded with the honorary title of SC 27 Chairman Emeritus.

In 2017 he became chairperson for a newly established European committee on “Cybersecurity and Data Protection”, CEN/CENELEC JTC 13. In addition he was appointed Convenor of ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG 13 “Trustworthiness”.

He is also chairing the German National Body mirror committee to ISO/IEC JTC 1 “Information Technology” as well as a BITKOM group on information security.

Dr. Edward Humphreys (Chartered Fellow of the BCS – FBCS CITP, CISM) is a philosopher, mathematician and cybersecurity professional. He has been a senior advisor in the field of information security and risk management for more than 40 years.  During this time, he has undertaken professional advisory and counselling engagements for major international organizations as well as for governments and the European Commission, Council of Europe, and the OECD.  He is also a leading academic in the field of cybersecurity research and a renowned ambassador in the field of international standardisation (1982 to present day).

Dr Humphreys is the convenor of the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 working group on information security management system standards.  He is internationally recognised and famous for being the “Father of the ISO/IEC 27001 family of information security management systems standards”.  He is also recognised for his work in championing the development, governance and promotion of ISO/IEC 27001 accredited certification around the world, which is providing the foundation of global cyberspace security and privacy norms.  His distinguished career has been awarded with many prestigious awards such as UK Wolfe-Barry Gold Medal for his outstanding leadership and contributions to international cyberspace standards and norms.

Dr Humphreys has been is a visiting professor at various universities around the world in Europe and Asia for the last 30 years.  His current areas of research include cyberspace governance, risk, security and privacy, and as well as risk psychology associated with cyberspace usage and applications.  He is also a university research associate in ancient philosophies specialising in philosophy of the mind and mental well-being, linguistics and the logic of the mind and ancient philosophies as medicine.

Dr. Lily (Lidong) Chen is a mathematician and heads Cryptographic Technology Group in Computer Security Division, NIST. Her team has been developing cryptographic standards published in Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) and NIST Special Publications (SP). The team is currently devoted to developing post-quantum cryptography standards. Her other areas of research include cryptographic protocols, zero-knowledge proof, special featured digital signature schemes, network security, and security for wireless and mobility. Dr. Chen has more than thirty years of experience in cryptographic research and applications and has actively contributed to cryptography and security standards development by the IEEE, ISO, and other standards organizations.

“With an extensive background in ITC cybersecurity evaluation and certification, Miguel has worked for Public Administrations, as a SME entrepreneur, and for DEKRA, one the biggest Testing, Inspection and Certification players. He is currently the convenor of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27/WG 3, as well as of CEN/CLC TC 13/WG 3.”

Jordi Mogay Batalla (MSc by Polytechnic of Valencia, Spain; PhD and DSc by Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. ORCID: 0000-0002-1489-5138) is Deputy Director of Research at National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland. He is also with Warsaw University of Technology, where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Network and Services. Jordi Mongay Batalla took part (coordination and/or participation) in more than 30 national and international ICT research projects (including EU ICT Programmes). His research interest focuses mainly on Technologies (5G and 6G, Network Functions: Network services chain, Security, AI) and Applications (DLT and blockchain, Internet of Things, Smart Cities, multimedia) for the Future Internet. He is editor of four books and author of more than 150 papers published in books, international journals (IEEE ComMag, IEEE WCM, IEEE JSAC, ACM CSUR, etc.) and conference proceedings and patents (Polish and European Patent Offices). He is/ has been guest editor and member of Editorial Board in more than 10 international journals. Currently Dr. Mongay Batalla is an adviser in different international and national technical groups. He is a technical adviser of the Polish Government for 5G cybersecurity law, a technical adviser of Polish Ministry of Infrastructure for autonomous automotive and others. He is also a technical member of the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (European Commission) and is a member of Hyperledger platform (a TheLinuxFoundation project). He is Member of the Polish Normalization Committee and collaborates actively with ITU-T Standardisation Groups (SG-12). He is an IEEE Member since 2010.

PhD Jerzy Żurek is the Director of the National Institute of Telecommunications since 2014, a graduate and lecturer at the Telecommunications Department of the Maritime University in Gdynia.

He obtained his doctorate at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of the Gdansk University of Technology in the specialty Digital Radiocommunication. His scientific interests include distributed spectrum systems, in particular using Frequency Hopping, both terrestrial and satellite, cellular systems, software defined radio (SDR), security of radiocommunication systems, embedded systems, location systems in radio networks, wireless networks, wireless ad sensor networks -hoc (ad-hoc WSN), cognitive radio, 5G networks etc. He is the author and co-author of over  110 scientific papers in the field of radiocommunication published in magazines, at national and international conferences as well as reports for the Polish administration.

He is, among others a member of the Electronics and Telecommunications Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Space and Satellite Research Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a member of the Polish Space Agency Council, a member of the U URSI G Commission, an expert of international organizations, including UN – ITU and IMO agencies, a member of the NASK-PIB Scientific Council, the chairman of the EMAG Institute Scientific Council, and an expert in the Telecommunications Section of the Electronics and Telecommunications Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

As Minister of Digital Affairs, he is responsible for the state policy in the field of computerisation,
development of e-services in public administration, civil security in cyberspace, infrastructure and
the use of innovative technologies.
He has been working at the Ministry of Digital Affairs from 16 September 2016, where until 17
April 2018 – the day of appointment to the ministerial position – he served as the Secretary of
State.
He is the Government Plenipotentiary for Cybersecurity.
Member of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland.
Before working at the Ministry of Digital Affairs, he worked in the Ministry of Treasury, where he
was Secretary of State in 2015-2016. Previously, in 2006-2007, he also worked as a Secretary of
State at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
He also served as the President of the Board of the European Fund for the Development of
Polish Rural Areas Foundation (in 2005-2006 and 2009-2015). Before that, he worked as a
manager in private companies.
Marek Zagórski was born on 6 August 1967 in Kamień Pomorski. He graduated from the
University of Szczecin and the Warsaw University of Life Sciences.
Under his leadership, the Ministry of Digital Affairs has prepared a number of facilities for citizens,
including tolls for reporting the birth of a child on-line, as well as an exemption for drivers, who do
not have to carry their vehicles’ registration certificates any more. He coordinated work on the
preparation and implementation of the Act on the National Cyber Security System, adaptation of
Polish regulations to the General Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and the
Council (EU) on the Protection of Personal Data (GDPR), as well as changes in
telecommunications law, thanks to which subscribers are better protected against abuse by
dishonest Premium SMS service providers. Thanks to the activities undertaken by the Ministry of
Digital Affairs during his term of office, in 2018 the number of Trusted Profile users increased by
one million (to more than 2.6 million).
As the Minister of Digital Affairs, he also implements a project of key importance for the
development of the country, namely the National Educational Network project.