Manos Athanatos
- Board Member / Senior Technical Project Manager
- ECSCI Cluster / Technical University of Crete(TUC) and Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH)
Emmanouil (Manos) Athanatos, M.Sc., is a Senior Technical Project Manager at the Technical University of Crete and a long-time member of the Institute of Computer Science at FORTH. With over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity R&D, he leads EU-funded projects focused on critical infrastructure protection and cyber resilience. He is Co-Founder of Cymph and an active member of OASIS technical committees (CACAO, CTI, TAC), as well as ENISA’s Ad-Hoc Working Group on SOCs. His areas of expertise include cybersecurity automation, network monitoring, deception technologies, and collaborative incident response. Manos regularly delivers hands-on trainings for NATO, ENISA, and other stakeholders across Europe.
Sessions
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ECSCI Workshop
Hybrid Workshop for the European Cluster for Securing Critical Infrastructures (ECSCI) Cluster
The European Directive on Critical Entity Resilience (CER Directive, following the preceding directive on critical infrastructures (CIs), from 2008) is currently in the implementation phase.
Adopted and published in 2022, it entered into force in 2023, and, on October 18, 2024 it became applicable (mandatory) in the EU and replaced the preceding directive. The EU Member States are supposed to adopt national strategies for enhancing the resilience of critical entities and identify critical entities by 2026. The European Commission will report to the European Parliament and Council on the compliance with the Directive by 2027 and provide the review of the Directive impact by 2029.
Already the previous directive, designated over 100 CIs as the CIs with possible cross-border impact – the number estimated to exceed 15,000 CIs by 2027, involving possibly over 25,000 experts across CI operators, consultancies, governments and other stakeholders.
The above numbers, the some already experienced delays and the need to implement the Directive together with the other EU Directives (e.g., the NIS2), show the complexity and importance of the Directive and its implementation. The European Cluster for Securing Critical Infrastructures (ECSCI, https://www.ecsci.eu) set as one of its goals to contribute to the implementation of the Directive, by aligning the opinions, activities and outcomes of the EU research projects. The respective ECSCI survey results will be presented at the workshop.
This short ECSCI Workshop intends to look at the status of the Directive implementation, the challenges experienced or expected and the “international context”. The cross-border impacts are an important element of the Directive and these aspects are not limited to the EU only – hence the workshop will include the views from within and outside the EU (tentatively non-EU European countries, Canada, US, Australia, ISO, …). Thanks to the hybrid format envisaged, both the participants onsite and those participating online will be able to share their views.Organizers:
– Prof. Aleksandar JOVANOVIC (online coordinator)
CEO, Steinbeis European Risk & Resilience Institute (EU-VRi), Germany
– Dr. Manos ATHANATOS (onsite coordinator)
Senior Technical Project Manager, Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece -
Opening Keynote
CIP Week and CIPRE Opening Keynote session