Women4Cyber Registry

Aliona Siniova is founder and CEO of NGO "Women in Information and Cyber Security", and a co-founder and information security lead at Infinx, an Information and Cyber Security consultancy firm. She is providing professional advice to public and private sector organisation on the information governance, GRC and Cyber Security.

Previously, she held position as a head of Cyber Security Department at one of the largest IT Integrators in Georgia, coordinating implementation projects for best in class security software solutions (SIEM, DLP, Data Classification, PAM, etc) to fit customers' needs.

She was the first women working in GOV CERT, responsible for the overall security strategy of development Security Operation Center and information security, data protection, business continuity management, and additional industry requirements such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, ENISA requirements, SIM3 model, etc.

She is Certified ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, ISO 9001 Lead Auditor and has CISM certification.

Currently working as an Information Security Consultant for VTB Bank Georgia.

- Cyber Security Education and Training Initiatives for Defense Personnel
https://www.wics.ge/post/cyber-security-education-and-training-initiatives-for-defense-personnel

- Information Security Tips for companies during Covid-19 (Georgian)
https://www.wics.ge/post/covid19

Bachelor in Business Management and Administration, I have several Masters Programs, including: Information Security Management, Project Management and Planning, and specialization courses in business management, applied technologies, also, different diplomas in National Defense.
On October 1, 2012, I joined the Office of Strategic Affairs of the National Securty Department and, currently, I am the Head of the Cybersecurity and Fight against Disinformation Unit of the National Security Department.
In addition to developing and directing the projects and initiatives related to my area of competences, I participate in the strategic development of Cybersecurity at the national level: National Security Strategy of 2013 and 2017, as well as its derived strategies: Cybersecurity; Maritime Security and Energy Security...
Other functions:
Secretary of the National Cybersecurity Council and member of the different Working Groups about National Cybersecurity in Spain.
Responsible to coordinate the Permanent Commission on Cybersecurity and the National Cybersecurity Forum from Spain.
Coordinating the 2019 Cybersecurity Strategy.
Collaborating in the working group for the transposition of the Network and Information Security Directive (NIS Directive) and its regulatory development in Spain.
Coordinating the national participation in the NIS Directive Working Group and its working subgroups and the development of the national crisis management model for the cybersecurity
Member of the Management Board of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and cooperating in the OSCE confidence-building meetings on the Internet and the OECD in the framework of Digital Security
Co-founder and vice president of the council of the Women4Cyber Spain association, the national chapter dependent on the Women4Cyber Foundation of the European Cyber Security Organization.

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Graduated in Computer Science Engineering from the University of León and Master's Degree in Management and Management of Information Systems and Technologies from the UOC, she also has various certifications in the field of Cybersecurity and Project Management (PMP (PMI), CISA and CISM (ISACA), CISSP (ISC2) among others).

With more than 18 years of experience in the ICT sector, he is currently Head of the Talent Area in Cybersecurity at INCIBE, leading the projects and actions that contribute to counteract the gap between supply and demand of talent in cybersecurity and the adoption of measures that stimulate the generation, identification, recruitment, retention and management of the same as well as activities for the specialization of professionals and the empowerment of women in the field of Cybersecurity.

She is also the coordinator of the STEM Talent Girl program (https://talent-girl.com/) at its headquarters in León, a Ciberccoperante (https://www.is4k.es/programas/cibercooperantes) in the same province and a volunteer in other initiatives such as Inspiring Girls Spain (https://www.inspiring-girls.es/), Girls4STEM (http://www.girls4stem.es/), etc.

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