Saâd Kadhi

An engineer by training, Saâd has more than 25 years of cybersecurity experience. Thriving in action, Saâd successfully dealt with several major incidents and large-scale cyber crises during his long-standing career.Leading CERT-EU since 2019, he reshaped the Cybersecurity Service for the European Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies into a highly regarded and equally trusted inter-institutional provider of cybersecurity services to all the European Union entities.Before that, Saâd built and managed the CSIRT of a French multinational food products corporation covering more than 120.000 employees worldwide and worked at the CERT of one of the major banking groups to fight against cybercrime and respond to cyberattacks. He also created CERT-BDF, the CSIRT of Banque de France, making it one of the most advanced central bank CSIRTs. Saâd is regularly invited to share his insights and present in various forums and events.