Speaker

Walter Unger completed the Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt; and the 12. General Staff Course at the National Defence Academy in Vienna, and the Leadership course at the Federal Administration Academy in Vienna. He served as a Platoon Commander and as a Company Commander. Since 1991 he had several employments in the MoD and in the (AAFSA). From 1999 to 2000 he served as Commander of the Anti-Tank Battalion 1, Joint Forces Command. From 2001 to 2009 he was Head of the Electronic Defence Division, AAFSA; 2006 to 2008 Head of the interministerial Working Group Strategy „ICT Security”; AAFSA, and from 2009 to 2013 he was Head of the ICT Security Division, AAFSA.

Since 2013 he is Head of Cyber Defence & ICT-Security Division.

A part of this division is the Military Cyber Emergency Readiness Team (milCERT) which is dedicated as one pillar of the Cyber Defence capability of the Austrian Armed Forces.

Recently in September he published in the Österreichischen Militärischen Zeitung (ÖMZ) an article about „Cyber Defence—eine nationale Herausforderung” (a national challenge).