Iva Tasheva

Iva Tasheva is the co-founder and cybersecurity lead at CYEN, am award-winning consultancy established in Brussels in 2018. Cyen is recognised for providing pragmatic, business success-oriented cybersecurity risk and compliance solutions that are strongly tailored to its client’s needs. Cyen specialises in the financial, manufacturing, public and digital sectors.

In addition to her work for CYEN, Iva is an appointed Member of the EU Cybersecurity Agency (ENISA) Ad-Hoc Working Groups on Enterprise Security and on Cloud Security (Certification) and a Board Member of Women4Cyber Belgium.

Her expertise is recognised, being shortlisted BeNeLux Outstanding Security Professional Award (OSPA) 2024, Belgium Cybersecurity Personality of the Year 2022 and listed ‘35 under 35’ by Santander/CODIB. She is a published author, including authoring the Bulgarian Guide for SME Cybersecurity, and a regular speaker. Iva holds an MBA from KULeuven and a Master in Cybersecurity degree from the New Bulgarian University. She is certified ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, ISO 27799 Lead Manager and DORA Senior Lead Manager.