Henry Rõigas is a non-resident research fellow at the ICDS and the CEO of the cybersecurity research company evisec. He has held various positions at both private and public organisations. He was a principal threat analyst at cybersecurity firm Nortal, chief strategy officer at an AI startup, Sentinel, and head of research and innovation cooperation at the data security company Guardtime. Before joining Guardtime, he was a policy researcher at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence and the agenda director for CyCon, the world’s leading cyber defence conference.
During his time at the CCDCOE, he was also a project lead for and contributor to the book Russian Aggression against Ukraine: Cyber War in Perspective and co-editor of the book International Cyber Norms: Legal, Policy and Industry Perspectives. His research interests focus on the intersection of government policy, international relations, and emerging digital threats, with a focus on cyber conflict and information warfare. He holds an MA in international relations from the University of Tartu.