EPES and Smart GRIDS: practical tools and methods to fight against cyber and privacy attacks

Andrea Praitano has a degree in Engineering, a Master in Business Administration and twenty years of work in the ICT sector. His experience is multidisciplinary and include project management, information security management, IT service management, IT and security governance, compliance/audit and privacy. Mr. Praitano has 15 years of experience as security and privacy consultant and project manager. He is a member of the board of ISACA Rome chapter. He speaks Italian and English and he hold technical and methodological qualification such as CISA, Lead Auditor ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 22301 and ISO/IEC 20000-1, ISO/IEC 27002 Advanced, PRINCE2 Practitioner, ITIL Expert, CRISC, COBIT 5, ISO/IEC 20000 Auditor and Manager, M_o_R - Management of Risk, MSP - Programme Management, Green IT, Technical Professional Risk and Compliance, Managed Service Provider Technical Support: Risk and Compliance, ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 Essentials (Technical), SSE+ Symantec Mobile Management 7.2, SSE+ Symantec Mobile Management Suite (Altiris) and App Center. He is managing the privacy and cybersecurity advisory team of Maticmind and he had the role of Project Security Officer of DEFeND Project. He had different speeches and seminars on cybersecurity and privacy.

Mrs. Anna Georgiadou is a research associate in the Management and Decision Support Systems Laboratory in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). She has been working as a senio enginerr on operation and system support services for major telecommunication providers, energy regulators, banking systems and other critical national infrastructures. She has recently become a PhD candidate on the cyber-security field. She is a certified database and network administrator, software developer and data analyst.

Annarita Iodice is currently a Business Analyst at Maticmind. She has a Master's degree in Mathematics. The main skills, developed over the course of 24 years of work experience, cover the following areas: Business Analysis, Data Warehouse, Data Analysis and Software Development. She also got project management experience. Before joining Maticmind, she worked for HP and EDS in different industries sectors like Banking, Insurance, Telecommunication, Public Administration, University and Research. She is currently working for the DEFeND project, funded by EU H2020, as a task leader. So, during last two years, she gained a good knowledge about privacy and security field.

Prof. Christos Xenakis is a faculty member of the Department of Digital Systems of the University of Piraeus, Greece, where currently is a Full Professor, a member of the Systems Security Laboratory and the director of the Postgraduate Degree Programme, on "Digital Systems Security". He has participated in numerous projects realised in the context of EU Programs (ACTS, ESPRIT, IST, AAL, DGHOME, Marie Curie, Horizon2020) as well as National Programs (Greek). He is the project manager of CUREX, SECONDO, INCOGNITO and SealedGRID projects, funded by Horizon2020, while he was the projec manager o the ReCRED project funded by Horizon 2020 and the technical manger of the UINFC2 project funded by DGHOME/ISEC. He is also a sterring committee member of the European Cyber Security Challenge (ECSC) and the leader of the Hellenic Cyber Security Team. His research interests are in the field of systems, networks and applications security.

Dr Jean-Baptiste Bernard is a product manager at GridPocket, a start-up company specialized in energy management for consumers and prosumers. He specializes in the use of energy data to enhance customer satisfaction and fidelity.

Prof. Panagiotis Sarigiannidis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece since 2016. He has published over 190 papers in international journals, conferences and book chapters. His research interests include telecommunication networks, internet of things and network security.