Kadri Kaska is a cyber security policy and legal researcher at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, a multinational and interdisciplinary hub of cyber defence expertise located in Tallinn, Estonia. Kadri’s main area of research is national cyber security strategy and governance; she also writes on the legal aspects of state cyber activities.

In 2017-2018, she was seconded to the Estonian Information System Authority, where she contributed to the Agency’s activities in cyber threat assessment, policy analysis and legal drafting. She was the editor and lead author of annual Estonian Cyber Security Assessments and, along with many others, spent a few sleepless nights in the autumn of 2017 in the mitigation efforts of the impact of the ROCA vulnerability in Estonia.

Kadri holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Tartu, Estonia.