Mika Lauhde
As a Cyber Commons Lead 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.
Sessions
A guided walkthrough of the Luxembourg Cybersecurity Cyber Commons Office offering and a live look at the Cyber Data Space — its industrialised open data access, ready-to-use ETL-processed datasets and the Cybersecurity Data Lab — followed by structured feedback: what works, what is missing, which data assets and services create most value, and what would lower the barrier to adoption for SMEs, researchers and the community. Output: a prioritised feedback backlog and a shortlist of desired data assets and improvements. The outputs will be published under an open licence, in the spirit of the conference.
Format (4 groups): Cybersecurity Data, AI HUB assets, Cybersecurity testing of AI systems, Open Tools for cybersecurity
With humanitarian and international actors in the conference community, this session co-creates a vision and wish-list for a Humanitarian Cyber Commons — shared, open and trustworthy data, tools and AI capabilities that help protect vulnerable populations and the organisations serving them — and turns it into a high-level, preliminary and non-committing roadmap of deliverables. Together, participants collect needs against guiding principles (strategic autonomy, neutrality, data protection, digital dignity), and identify candidate use cases and potential partners to join.
The roadmap is structured around two inputs: (a) the requirements and requests received from stakeholders, and (b) the deliverables already foreseen within our established Luxembourg Cybersecurity Factory Cyber Commons work programme.
The session then invites the audience to say what is missing from the roadmap and, realistically, in what timeline each item is genuinely needed — "yesterday" not being an accepted answer.
Output: white paper (Chatam house rules), to be distributed to the participants only, including a draft vision statement, a prioritised wish-list, and candidate use cases and partnerships.