
Italian Ministry of Economic Development – Istituto Superiore delle Comunicazioni e delle Tecnologie dell’Informazione (ISCOM) (Italy). ISCOM is a General Direction of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and it runs the OCSI, the Italian Scheme for ICT Security which certifies all IT systems authorized to deal with state secrets, under guidance from Italy DIS. Italy is a member of SOGIS.org.
(In many ways, an Italian equivalent of the German BSI)

The Secure Information Technology Center of Austria (Austria). A-SIT is the leading IT standardization and certification public body in Austria. It represents public authorities or assists Austrian public authorities in various international and EU bodies (e.g., Council of Europe, ENISA Management Board, Common Criteria Management Board, SOG-IS, OECD, etc.). Its members are the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF), the Central Bank of the Republic of Austria (Oesterreichische Nationalbank, OeNB), the Federal Computing Centre of Austria (BRZ), and Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). Further formal duties are Competent Authority for certifying online collection systems for the European Citizen Initiative (EU Regulation 211/10, art. 6(4)), security assessment of e-voting technical components (student union elections), or expert opinions for the Data Protection Commission. Following a Cabinet Council decision the Austrian federal ministries are asked to call on A-SIT in case of research orders or questions corresponding to the A-SIT mission. Thus, A-SIT has duties of a national ICT security advisory agency, even though not organized as an agency, but as an association.
(In many ways, an Austrian equivalent of the German BSI)

Municipality of Barcelona (Spain). It is the capital city of the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain and Spain’s second most populated city, with a population of 1.6 million within its administrative limits.

European Organisation for Security. (Belgium) A member-supported research, dissemination and strategic organization it is the largest industry association of large European IT security providers, researcher entities, universities, clusters and associations. Shareholders include: Thales, Almaviva, Atos, CEA, Fraunhofer, Engineering, Airbus, Indra, Saab, STM.

Data Protection Authority of the State of Schleswig-Holstein of the Federal Republic of Germany (Germany). Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz (ULD, Engl. Independent Centre for Privacy Protection) is the Data Protection Authority of Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost Federal State of Germany. Its office with 40 employees is located in Kiel, Germany. The Privacy Commissioner of Schleswig-Holstein, Marit Hansen, is head of ULD, which is responsible for both freedom of information as well as data protection at private and public sector entities seated in Schleswig-Holstein.




