M.Sc. Aleksandar Klaiæ
Head of the Information security department
Office of the National Security Council

Aleksandar Klaiæ holds a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. from the Electrical Engineering and Computing Faculty in Zagreb, Croatia. He has been closely involved with the development of national information security concept from the very beginning of the Croatian membership in the NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) Program, in the autumn of the year 2000. For a number of years he was the national coordinator for the field of information system security (INFOSEC). Today he is the head of the Information security department within the Office of the National Security Council which is Croatian National Security Authority (NSA) responsible for the national information security system and its compliance with the requirements of Croatian integration processes in EU and NATO. During the more than ten years spent within different bodies of the Croatian national security system, he was involved primarily with the development and operational issues of communication and information systems, working on both experts and management positions. First five years of his professional carrier he spent in the Croatian Institute of Advanced Technologies (Brodarski institute) working as the researcher in the field of process control and embedded systems technology mainly for military purposes. He is the author of a number of scientific and professional papers from the field of expertise, and he regularly contribute as author or lecturer on different scientific and professional conferences and meetings.

EU's Information Security Expectations
The completion of a Single European Information Space offering affordable and secure high bandwidth communications, rich and diverse content and digital services, is one of the most important objectives of the program i2010 – A European Information Society for growth and employment. The Foundations that lay underneath this information space are based on traditional information domains like classified, unclassified, or personal information domain, and on contemporary democratic concepts as it is the freedom of information concept. Besides, the environment must satisfy all existing 27 EU member states plus future ones. Such foundations require proper information security regulation that will harmonise organisational and technical standards of the interconnections of different national information systems and networks, but also the standards of information management and protection in all EU member states. Considering relatively wide spectrum of areas from national security, through public e-Government services, till the commercial digital services, the way of legal regulation and approach to the issues of information security is rather various in these areas. So the information security regulation is incorporated in different legislation acts and programme documents both of the EU, and the member states.

The Session will show all of these issues from the perspective of a country that is in the process of negotiation on the EU membership. It will be cleared about differences and similarities between the security policy and the information security demands in different EU programmes (e.g. IDABC), what are the basic concepts and demands for building government information networks, what initiatives and encouragement are to be expected within private sector, what is the connection of information security and some other actual and related subjects like the telecommunication regulation framework, and critical infrastructure protection.