Mission & Objectives
The European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO) ASBL is a fully self-financed non-for-profit organisation under the Belgian law, established in June 2016.
ECSO is the privileged partner of the European Commission for the implementation of the Cybersecurity Public-Private Partnership. ECSO federates the European Cybersecurity public and private stakeholders, including large companies, SMEs and start-ups, research centres, universities, end-users and operators of essential services, clusters and association, as well as the local, regional and national public administrations across the European Union (EU) Members States, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and H2020 Programme associated countries.
The main goal of ECSO is to coordinate the development of the European Cybersecurity Ecosystem support the protection of European Digital Single Market, ultimately to contribute to the advancement of European digital sovereignty and strategic autonomy.
- FEDERATE & CONNECT:, ECSO Federates the European Cybersecurity Public and Private Community and facilitates the networking and cooperation at European level
- ACT: ECSO Supports members' needs and market development in public-private cooperation with concrete actions/initiatives geared towards increasing strategic autonomy.
- SUPPORT; ECSO is a recognised actor in the European institutional landscape, it cooperates with European institutions, bodies and agencies as well as National Public administrations for the development and implementation of EU policies, programmes and legislations to increase digital autonomy.
Collaborations
About our collaborations
ECSO is a pan European, multi-stakeholders and cross sectoral partnership organisation working on cybersecurity with a holistic approach. In light of this we seek out to establish and strengthen our collaboration with various other actors and stakeholders part of the European cybersecurity ecosystem. The objective of each collaboration is to complement each other’s work, avoid duplication, learn from one another and promote the objective and vision of ECSO.
European Institutions
ECSO maintains close collaboration with
European Commissionners and top-level management of the European
Commission's DGs
including DG CNECT, DG RTD, DG ENER, DG MOVE, JRC, DG DIGIT, EEAS
Upon the invitation of the Presidency of the Council of the EU, ECSO is regularly invited to provide updates on the status of its work to the Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues of the Council.
ECSO closely engages with Members of the European Parliament (MEPs),
Committees and Political Groups providing independent
assessments on European legislative proposals such as the implementation of
the NIS Directive, the Cybersecurity Act including the establishment of a
European Certification Framework and the definition of ENISA's new mandate, as
well as the set-up of a European Cybersecurity Industrial, Technology and
Research Competence Centre and the Network of National Coordination Centres.
In parallel, ECSO fosters relations between MEPs and ECSO Members addressing
key topics such as support to SMEs, regional development, R&I,
investments, disruptive technologies, etc as well as ECSO Initiatives like
Women4Cyber and Youth4Cyber.
European Agencies and Bodies
ECSO regularly cooperates with European Agencies and Bodies such as
ENISA
(European Union Agency for Cybersecurity),
EUROPOL
(European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation),
EDA
(European Defence Agency),
ESA (European Space
Agency),
EASA
(European Aviation Safety Agency),
EIT (European
Institute of Innovation & Technology),
EIB
(European Investment Bank),
CEN/CENELEC
(European Committee for Standardisation/European Committee for
Electrotechnical Standardisation),
ETSI (European
Telecommunications Standards Institute)
Other European Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) and Joint Undertakings(JU)
ECSO coordinates its work with other relevant PPPs and European Associations
such as
euRobotics, BDVA (Big Data),
AIOTI (IoT),
EFFRA (Industry
4.0), 5G AI (5G),
INATBA
(Blockchain),
A.SPIRE
(Processes),
ECSEL (JU on
embedded electronics),
EUROHPC
(JU on High-performance Computing).
Pilot Projects
Composed by 40% of ECSO members, CONCORDIA, ECHO, SPARTA and CyberSec4Europe are the four winning pilot projects of the 2018 Horizon 2020 cybersecurity call "establishing and operating a pilot for a European Cybersecurity Competence Network and developing a common European Cybersecurity Research & Innovation Roadmap". These four EU pilot projects are expected to strengthen the EU's cybersecurity capacity and tackle future cybersecurity challenges for a safer European Digital Single Market.
Governance
Board of Directors
ECSO Chairperson
Philippe Vannier
Philippe Vannier is the 1 st elected Chairman of ECSO. He is currently Executive Vice-President of Big Data & Security and Chief Technology Officer at Atos Group. He has been CEO of the Bull Group since May 2010. He is also the Chairman and founder of Crescendo Industries, which he founded in 2004, Bull’s largest shareholder. Philippe Vannier is a graduate of ESPCI ParisTech and of INSEAD AMP. He also holds a DEA Génie électrique et Instrumentation from the University Paris IV. He began his career at Michelin North America, then Cobham Group and Alcatel.
ECSO Vice chairs
Guillaume Poupard
Charlotte Graire
Giorgio Cusma Lorenzo
Fabio Martinelli
Gerd Müller
Mark Miller
Members of Board of Directors
NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V.
Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity GmbH
Schneider Electric
Secunet
Siemens AG
SGS Group
Thales SIX GTS France SAS
Digital SME
Guardtime
AEI Ciberseguridad – Agrupacíon Empresarial Innovadora en Ciberseguridad y Tecnologías Avanzadas (Spanish Cybersecurity Innovation Cluster)
EUROBITS
ETNO – European Telecommunication Network Operator's Association
FISC – Finnish Information Security Cluster
NECC - North European Cybersecurity Cluster
INCERT GIE
RIA – Estonian Information System Authority
Estonia – Ministry of Defence
Italy – Ministry of Economic Development (MiSE)
Spain - INCIBE - National Institute of Cybersecurity
Poland – Ministry of Digital Affairs
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
TECNALIA – Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation
Reference documents
- Statutes of ECSO (download file)
- Bylaws (download file)
Secretariat
Luigi Rebuffi
Emile Jonckheere
Eda Aygen
Roberto G. Cascella
Standardisation, certification and supply chain management (WG1) SRIA and Cybersecurity Technologies (WG6)
Nina Olesen
Sectoral demand (WG3) Education, training, raising awareness, cyber ranges (WG5) Women4Cyber initiative Youth4Cyber initiative
Danilo D'Elia
Market development, investments, international collaboration (WG2) Support to SMEs and cooperation with Regions (WG4) cPPP Monitoring
Nina Hasratyan
Coordinator of Women4Cyber initative Users' Committee Support to Sectoral Demand (WG3) activities Support to Education, training, raising awareness and cyber ranges (WG5) activities
Milda Kaklauskaite
Support to Communication and Marketing
Alexander Cook
Vacancies
We do not have any vacancies at the moment but we always welcome unsolicited applications info[@]ecs-org.eu