Ilias Chantzos is in charge of Symantec’s Government Relations and Public Affairs programmes for Europe, Middle East, Africa as well as the Asia, Pacific and Japan Regions. He is based in Brussels.
Chantzos represents Symantec before government bodies, national authorities and international organisations advising on public policy issues with particular regard to IT security and availability issues.
Chantzos is a member of the Executive Board of AeA Europe. He was also recently appointed member of the Permanent Stakeholders Group of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). He was chair of the European Policy Council of Business Software Alliance for two consecutive terms. Chantzos is regularly invited as a speaker to conferences and events on public policy, information security and privacy.
Before joining Symantec in 2004, Chantzos worked as legal and policy officer in the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission. His tasks were mainly focused around information security policy. He covered the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention and the Framework Decision on Attacks against Information Systems. Furthermore he worked on a number of EU legislative initiatives relevant to information society and information security, including the directives on Privacy on Electronic Communications and the European Network and Information Security Agency. Chantzos represented the European Commission in various international forums and conferences.
Chantzos holds a law degree from the University of Thessaloniki and a Masters degree in computers and communications law from the University of London. He is fluent in Greek, English and German.
Policy Issues related to Network Security
Abstract:Ilias Chantzos will speak about the overall regulatory policy approach on network and information security. He will discuss the question of leadership on IT security policy across the world and will address specifically the EU data protection legislation as a model discussing some of its strong points as well as the challenges that Europe is facing when applying the existing framework. He will also discuss the challenges arising from the links between data protaction, data retention and cybercrime legislation and the evolution towards a critical information infrastructure policy touching as well on the growing defense aspects of information security. He also propose some suggestion as to where he believes future developments of EU policy will materialize.
