Mario Maawad Marcos

Mario Maawad Marcos has worked in IT for 18 years, the last 14 in Information Security. Since 2004 has been working in “La Caixa”, the first financial institution in Spain, as Director of Digital Security. He received a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the Politecnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona, 1997) and a MS in Laws , Lawyer, from the Open University of Catalonia (Barcelona 2010). Received also a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Banking from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona 2009) , and has several Security Certifications such as CISSP 2005,or GCIH 2006. After a year working in “La Caixa” in 2005 he was co-founder of the Computer Incident Response Team (CSIRT) of “La Caixa” this team is responsible of handling all the incidents or attacks that can come from Internet. He is member and has participated actively creating and managing initiatives within the Antiphishing Working Group (APWG) and Forum of Internet Response Teams (FIRST). One of the priorities of “La Caixa” is to become a reference in mobile banking where security is an important issue that has to be treated in depth from the beginning, for this reason Mario Maawad is also chairing the Biometrics and Security Working Group within the Mobey Forum. Since 2014 is the co-chair of the Financial Services Working Group within the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) treating the barriers and solutions to implement cloud technologies in the Financial services sector.