Women4Cyber Registry

Passionate about Communication and Cybersecurity, I like to implement the communication strategy for such an interesting area

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Iva Tasheva

Iva Tasheva is a co-founder and cybersecurity lead at CYEN, a family-owned consultancy. She is providing professional advice to large public and private sector organisations on the cybersecurity governance, risk and compliance (GRC).

Previously, she held positions at DIGITALEUROPE, the European Policy Centre (EPC), and at some EU SMEs. She was also a Schuman Trainee at the European Parliament.

She has an MBA and Master in Cybersecurity, and is Certified ISO 27001 Lead Implementer and ISO 27799 Lead Manager.

She is a published author and an experienced cybersecurity policy speaker.

Cybersecurity risk appetite of the European Institutions - the case of the European External Action
Services (EEAS), 2018, Sofia: New Bulgarian University
▪ Future of media in increasingly digital world, EPC Issue Paper, 2018, Brussels: European Policy Centre (EPC)
▪ European cybersecurity policy: trends and prospects, Brussels: European Policy Centre (EPC),
http://www.epc.eu/documents/uploads/pub_7739_europeancybersecuritypolicy.pdf

▪ Rewarding quality journalism or distorting the Digital Single Market? The case for and against ancillary copyright for press publishers, co-authored report, Brussels: European Policy Centre (EPC), http://www.epc.eu/documents/uploads/pub_7712_rewardingqualityjournalismordistortingthedsm.pdf

▪ Fighting terror in the digital age - what role for social media and youth?, Sofia: New Bulgarian University

▪ Future of taxation in the EU Single Market, EPC Policy Brief, EPC Policy Brief, 2017, Brussels: European Policy Centre (EPC), http://www.epc.eu/documents/uploads/pub_7387_futuretaxation.pdf

▪ Implementation of better legislation - Effect of the Stoiber Report: Better Regulation – from renewed
emphasis to implementation, co-authored study, commissioned by the EESC, 2016, Brussels:
European Union, http://www.eesc.europa.eu/resources/docs/qe-04-16-189-en-n.pdf

▪ Financial Instruments under Cohesion Policy 2007-13: How Have Member States and Selected Financial Institutions Respected and Preserved EU Financial Interests?, European Parliament, 2016, Brussels: European Union, www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2016/552306/IPOL_STU(2016)552306_EN.pdf

I have studied Law and have been further specialised in European Law.
I have working experience as a civil servant in the Greek public administration for 10 years.
For the last three and a half years, I am working for the European Commission in the area of Digital Single Market, and more specifically on cybersecurity and electronic identification.

Michèle Feltz is working in the digital trust department of ILNAS, Luxembourg's Insitute of Standardization, Accreditation, Safety and Quality of Products and Services. Her work is focused on the supervision of trust service providers and on standardization related to information security and trust services. Before joining ILNAS, she worked as an information security expert at Luxembourg's National Commission for Data Protection. She received her Master Degree in Mathematics from the University of Fribourg in 2010 and her Ph.D. in Information Security from ETH Zurich in 2014, with a thesis on strengthening the security of key exchange protocols.

Michèle Feltz, Cas Cremers:
Strengthening the security of authenticated key exchange against bad randomness. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 86(3): 481-516 (2018)

Colin Boyd, Cas Cremers, Michèle Feltz, Kenneth G. Paterson, Bertram Poettering, Douglas Stebila:
ASICS: authenticated key exchange security incorporating certification systems. Int. J. Inf. Sec. 16(2): 151-171 (2017)

Cas J. F. Cremers, Michèle Feltz:
Beyond eCK: perfect forward secrecy under actor compromise and ephemeral-key reveal. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 74(1): 183-218 (2015)

Colin Boyd, Cas Cremers, Michèle Feltz, Kenneth G. Paterson, Bertram Poettering, Douglas Stebila:
ASICS: Authenticated Key Exchange Security Incorporating Certification Systems. ESORICS 2013: 381-399

Cas J. F. Cremers, Michèle Feltz:
Beyond eCK: Perfect Forward Secrecy under Actor Compromise and Ephemeral-Key Reveal. ESORICS 2012: 734-751

Elsa works as a Legal & Policy Officer within the European Innovation Council (EIC) Task Force, Governance & Coordination Unit, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission. The EIC supports brilliant innovators, SMEs and startups to bring their ideas to market and enable their scale-up. Previously, she worked at the "Health" Directorate of the same Directorate-General, where she developed an affinity for the world of health research, digital and data technologies. Before joining the European Commission, Elsa worked for globally leading consulting firms such as Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young, a Non-for profit entity and an Association Management company, in Luxembourg and Brussels. She is knowledgeable of issues, initiatives and policies (EU and International) in the sectors of energy, alternative fuels, climate change, emissions’ reduction, environment protection, transport, health research & care, digital technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, DLTs/Blockchain and cybersecurity. A jurist by education and subsequent training, she wanted to learn more about geopolitics and international relations. She thus obtained a Master’s degree in Strategic Studies where, among other issues on war and peace, she was “introduced” to Carl von Clausewitz, his strategic theory and his brilliant book ‘On War’. The affinity for the health research & care world and her curiosity for the fascinating worlds of AI, ML and related technologies, led her decision to pursue a long-distance, part-time PhD in Artificial Intelligence and "ethics-by-design" in the health & care sector.
Elsa has joined fellow women lawyers as a Board member of the European Women Lawyers Association (EWLA). She participates in the IEEE working group on Empathic Technologies and in particular the sub-group on ethical explainability and she is a Mentor at the ‘Lighthouse3’ project, which is an AI Ethics Mentoring Program. She was a member of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Health Data Interest Group.
When not dealing with the data world, Elsa appreciates the water (scuba diving) and fitness (functional training) worlds.
Elsa’s inspirational quote: We can do well by doing good!