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Nikolaos Koutras
CEO ADDITESS
Mr Nikolaos Koutras , A ret . Colonel of the Hellenic Army , graduated from the Hellenic Army Academy on 1987 , as a Signal Officer . He also owns an MEng in Electrical Engineering ( Telecommunications and Electronic Warfare ) from the Naval Postgraduate School ( 1999-2001 ), CA , USA . He has more than 12 years of management experience and particularly in Project Management , which resulted from his assignments at the Hellenic Army General Staff / Signal Directorate / Chief of ISR Department , 2001 - 2008 . He retired in 2008 since then worked as an associated professor of electronics – military telecommunications in the Hellenic Army Military Academy , and as associate researcher at the Center of Security Studies of the Hellenic Ministry of Citizen Protection on various EU funding ( FP7 ) projects . From 2012 cooperates with ADITESS and since 2014 appointed as the Managing Director of the company .
" Additess Border & Cyber Security , software applications & RESISTO , S4ALLCITIES projects "
ADDITESS - Advanced Integrated Technology Solutions & Services Ltd is a Cyprus-based Small Medium Enterprise ( SME ) established in 2011 . ADDITESS is a scientific , consulting , and research company whose purpose is to conduct theoretical and applied research and to produce studies , at a strategic and tactical level , on issues concerning
Security policies
Border Management
Critical Infrastructure Protection
Cybersecurity
Transportation and Cargo Security ADDITESS has developed state of the art applied Security Solutions both hardware or software-based in the above-mentioned areas . ADDITESS also provides advisory , consulting and solution services to various Government Organizations and to other Public and Private authorities in Cyprus , Europe , or Worldwide , on these same issues . Over the last years , ADDITESS invested in establishing the role of the company through strong participation in 22 EU R & D funded projects , FP7 , Horizon 2020 , and Horizon Europe frameworks , or various National R & D proposals in the fields of Security , ICT , Aeronautics ( UAVs ), Communications , Transportation , and Environment . More recently ADDITESS has participated in EDIDP funding projects promoting with success the Cypriot defense industrial ecosystem . ADDITESS SW applications - products : 1 / ADDTask an incident reporting SW application for critical infrastructure protection 2 / ADDmarine a client and incident reporting SW application for maritime protection 3 / ADDC3 is a command-and-control SW application for Border Management 4 / ADDC3Mobile / vehicle a mobile Command , Control and Coordination center for i ) usage of UAS systems and ii ) monitoring and responding to a crisis or security operations . 5 / ADDcsim is a cybersecurity information and data management platform in use by Cyber incident response teams