Miguel Angel Cañada is Head of the National Coordination Center (NCC-ES INCIBE) of the Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute, the entity designated to coordinate in Spain the network of the European Cybersecurity Competence Center of the European Commission (ECCC). He is also Member of the Board of Directors and Vice Chair representing National Public Authorities of the European Cyber Security Organization (ECSO).
Expert in Public affairs, Miguel has more than 15 years’ experience both in the public and private sector in LatAm and the EU. Prior to INCIBE, he was Cybersecurity Program Officer at the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism of the Organization of American States (OAS). Also, he worked at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and in the private technology and telecom sector.
Miguel holds a bachelor’s degree in Advertising and Public Relations, and bachelor’s degree in Journalism, both of them from the University of Navarra (Spain); an Executive Certificate Program in Strategy and Performance Management from Georgetown University (US) and a Postgraduate Program in Public Affairs Management from ICADE-Comillas University (Spain). His academic experience includes visiting professor in Political and Strategic Communications in EAE Business School (Spain)
• FhaaS – Financial Cryptography as a Service
• SafeNet – Anomaly detection in user activity
• Prophet – Monitoring of anomalies and threats associated with the illegitimate use of the radio spectrum
• Fair – Suite of tools for the detection of AI-generated content."
1999 - 2011 Chief of Telematics Crimes Group, Civil Guard
2011 - 2013 Chief of International Security, Santander Bank
2013 - 2015 CISO, Civil Guard
Master of Information Security for Defense, Rey Juan Carlos University
Master of Direction and Management Security Information, ASIMELEC and Polytechnic University of Madrid.