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  • Mr Marnix Dekker
    Head of Sector NIS, Deputy Head of Unit for Resilience of Critical Sectors
    ENISA

ABOUT

Marnix is the Deputy Head of unit for Resilience of Critical Sectors, at ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity. He leads a team of experts supporting the EU Member States with the implementation of the NIS Directive. His team focuses on increasing the cybersecurity and resilience of the EU’s critical sectors, by working on technical issues, such as mobile network interconnections, on strategic issues, such as the EU’s 5G toolbox, and on EU policies for resilience, such as the NIS2, DORA, and the electricity network code.
In the past he was the deputy CISO of the European Commission, and he worked as an IT architect for the Dutch national digital identity systems.

Marnix has a Ph.D. degree in Computer security and a Master degree in Quantum Physics.