Erkuden received the M. S. and B.S. degree in telecommunication engineering from University of Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain, in 1997. In 2020 she has received the PhD in Security and Privacy Assurance in DevOps of MultiCloud applications. After working six years for Ericsson Spain, currently she is senior scientist of Cybersecurity research team of TRUSTECH unit in Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Derio, Spain. She is currently the coordinator of the Security WP in the H2020 SPEAR project on Secure Smart Grids as well as in the H2020 ENACT project on Secure and Privacy-aware Smart IoT Systems. Previously, she was the coordinator of the H2020 MUSA project on Multi-cloud Security, successfully ended in 2017, as well as the chair of the Data Protection, Security and Privacy in Cloud Cluster of EU-funded research projects, launched by DG-CNECT in April 2015.
Furthermore, she has worked in multiple large European and Spanish projects on cybersecurity and trust such as POSEIDON, PDP4E, TACIT, RISC, ANIKETOS, SWEPT, CIPHER and SHIELDS. Her main research interests include Trust and Security, Risk Management, and AI for Cybersecurity.
Mrs. Erkuden collaborates with Technology Platforms and Forums such as Cybersecurity PPP ECSO, ETSI Secure Artificial Intelligence Working Group, AIOTI WG4 Policy and Privacy and the Spanish National Network on Cybersecurity. She has been member of Programme Committees of Journals and Conferences including the Journal of Computer Networks and Communications, the International Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering for the Internet-of-Things, the ARES Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), The International Workshop on Security Testing And Monitoring, The Workshop on Security, Privacy, and Identity Management in the Cloud, the Cybersecurity and Privacy Innovation Forum, CSP Forum and SECSE.
