Maximilian Urban

• Mgr. Controlling, Regulation, Cybersecurity; CISO
• Netz Niederoesterreich

Maximilian Urban is the Department Manager for Controlling, Regulation Management, Cybersecurity and Resilience at Netz Niederoesterreich (Netz NOe). Netz NOe is the Distribution System Operator of the county of Lower Austria for electricity and gas. He is also the Information Security Officer (CISO) of Netz NOe.

Maximilian Urban also contributes to the Austrian DSO association (OesterreichsEnergie) as chairman of the Information Security working group, Eurelecitric (Sustainable Network Technology), EU DSO Entity (Data Interoperability) and at E.DSO as chairman of the TF4 Cybersecurity.

Resilience of Netz NOe according to the respective EU directive and the Resilience of critical infrastructure law in Austria is being handled in Maximilian’s department under Security Governance as an integrated approach together with NIS and Network Code Cybersecurity (NC CS), called all risk approach.

Maximilian Urban holds a Master degree in Electrotechnical Engineering and Bachelor degrees in Industrial Engineering and Business Administration. He started his professional career at Siemens in implementation of Power Systems Control Centers, continued with IT implmentations in the Telecom, Transportation and Energy sector and then joined EVN for Energy Services and Energy Efficiency. Later he joined Netz NOe for Regulation Management and Cybersecurity.