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Robert Kośla
Member of the Board of the Safe Cyberspace Foundation – b. Director of the Cyber Security Department of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.
Since 1994 in the Office of State Protection, first in the Development and Implementation Research Division of the Cipher Bureau (then in the Communications and Information Technology Security Bureau). From 1998 to 2002, Deputy Director of the Office of Communications and Informatics Security of the Office of State Protection, and from 2002 to 2006, Deputy Director of the Department of Data Communication Security (DBTI) of the Internal Security Agency. He headed the ICT security accreditation division supervising, among others, the work of the Cryptographic Protection Laboratory, the Electromagnetic Protection Laboratory and the Physical Protection Laboratory of the DBTI ABW. Co-author of the concept of the construction of measures for the protection of classified information and the national scheme for the testing and certification of these measures (inter alia using ITSEC, Common Criteria and national criteria). Co-author of the draft law on electronic signature.
Between 1998 and 2008, he represented Poland in the NATO Information Security Committee, then the NATO Information Assurance Sub-Committee (SC/4). Co-author of directives and technical recommendations developed by the working groups of the NATO Information and Communication Security Committee. In the years 2006-2008, Deputy Director for SIS and VIS of the Implementing Authority for European Programmes of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, where he was the national project leader for the inclusion of public administration bodies in the Schengen Information System (SIS1+, SIS II) and the Visa Information System (VIS). Graduate of the Faculty of Cybernetics at the Military University of Technology in Warsaw, majoring in information systems, specialisation: real-time operating systems.