As a Project Developer in Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity, Mika Lauhde is in leading establishment of “Cyber Commons – office”, which is part of Luxembourg’s national flag ship project “Luxembourg Cyber Security Factory”. This office will be accountable of OpenSource, Open Hardware, Open Data and Open Standard development and support in Luxembourg, to enhance national resilience and digital Sovereignty.
Before joining LHC, he was working as Head of Technology, leading ICRC (International Committee of Red Cross) R&D in area digital independence and neutrality development: OpenSource and Open Hardware, encryption, off grid communication, etc.
Mika has also worked as Global Vice President of Cyber Security and Privacy at Huawei Technologies, where he was advising company’s top executives on policy, law, regulations, and broad cyber security trends including OpenSource technology strategy.
Prior joining Huawei, he was VP of Government Relations and Business Development with SSH Communications Security, inventor of SSH protocol, where he advised governments and other stakeholders on security and privacy issues including critical infrastructure protection, compliance, software assurance as well risk and identity management globally.
Ahead of that, Mika was in charge of global cyber security efforts at Nokia Oy. Among other things, he handled cyber-related government relations, criminal compliancy and Nokia’s crisis management, as well as cyber security R&D related to handsets and other manufacturing operations worldwide.
Mika served for 11 years as a Member of ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency) and advises Europol on cyber security, telecom and privacy matters.
He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Maastricht University Faculty of Law’s Centre of Data Protection and Cyber Security and a Fellow at the United Kingdom’s Institution of Engineering and Technology.
From 2007 to 2010 he was a member of the Finnish government’s ICT security advisory board, served as a Member of the British government’s critical infrastructure protection group CPNI from 2005 to 2009.