Ana Ferreira, PhD, CISSP, HCISPP (Portugal), is an Information Security specialist, teacher and researcher at CINTESIS@RISE, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal, for the past 20 years, where she leads various research projects in the areas of access control, privacy and usable security as well as risk assessment, regulations and social engineering, applied to the healthcare domain.
She is the author of more than 110 scientific publications, with about 900 citations and frequently participates as a Cybersecurity Expert Evaluator for the European Commission. Ana is currently an Ad Personam member of ENISA’s (European Union Agency for Cybersecurity) Advisory Group and was selected as one of the Top 100 most influential women in Cybersecurity in Europe,
the Top 20 Most Inspiring Women in Cyber in 2022 and won the Cybersecurity Woman of the Year Awards 2022, in the category “Barrier Breaker”. Ana is also the Co-Founder of Women4Cyber Portugal, where she leads the team for Research and Innovation and the Co-Founder and Vice-President of the Portugal (ISC)2 Chapter.