Photo: Professor Reinhard Posch (Left) and Roger Dean
Brussels: EEMA, Europe's leading independent, non-profit e-Identity & security association has announced the recipient of its 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award is an Austrian Professor Dr Reinhard Posch. The highly prestigious annual award recognises services to ICT security and was presented by the Chairman of EEMA, David Goodman, at the annual Information Security Solutions Europe (ISSE) conference in Brussels.
Executive Director of EEMA, Roger Dean, who received the award in 2012, alongside Kim Cameron from Microsoft comments: “The EEMA Lifetime Achievement Award is a very special honour, as it is an acknowledgement by your peers of an illustrious career, dedicated to progress of IT security. Dr Reinhard Posch continues to make a significant contribution in the field and we are privileged that he has been as supporter of EEMA’s work for many years.”
In 1986 Reinhard Posch became the youngest professor at the Technical University of Graz and was appointed to the board of the newly established Institute for Applied Information Processing and Information Technology. Since 2001, Reinhard has been Chief Information Officer for the Austrian Federal Government and operates and manages the platform Digital Austria. He is also Scientific Director of the Centre for Secure Information Technology (A-SIT) and was Chairman of the Board at ENISA from 2007 to 2011.
In 2010 Reinhard joined Vice Presidents of the European Commission, Neelie Kroes and Maroš Šefčovič as a member of the Council of Practices in the areas of ICT security. In 2011 he became a member of the Steering Board for the European Cloud Partnership and was honoured with the Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria.