Liisa Past
Cybernetica
Head of Cyber Security Business Development

Liisa Past (MA) is growing the cyber security portfolio and the security products of the R&D-intensive ICT company Cybernetica, the force behind critical digital governance systems and cutting edge applied research. She has served as the Chief National Cyber Risk Officer for the Estonian Government Office and Chief Research Officer at the Cyber Security Branch of the Estonian Information System Authority, where she designed, led and carried out analysis related to cyber security, including risk, threat and impact assessments. Liisa spent 2018-2019 as a Next Generation Leader at the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University focusing on cyber security of the technologies underlying democracies and elections. She has been a driving force behind the Estonian comprehensive risk assessment of elections and the Compendium on Cyber Security of Election Technology, published under the auspices of the Cooperation Group of the EU Network and Information Security Directive. While serving on the directorate of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, Liisa ran both the external relations of and the StratCom game in the world’s largest international technical network defence exercise Locked Shields.