Lithuania’s digital economy is unusually international for its size—home to global service centers, fast-moving fintech, and mature IT services providers that support critical systems across the Baltics and wider Europe. That mix pushes cybersecurity leaders to balance EU regulatory expectations (including NIS2-style resilience thinking), customer and partner assurance (ISO 27001 and audit readiness), and real operational security execution. The leaders below reflect that spectrum: governance-heavy ISO and privacy leadership, SOC-building practitioners, critical infrastructure security, and fintech security leaders operating close to board-level risk.
Vilma Klastaitytė — Chief Information Security Officer, Atea ASA
Vilma Klastaitytė is Chief Information Security Officer at Atea ASA, serving as CISO for Atea countries. Her background is deeply rooted in management systems and assurance: over a decade of experience working with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, and ISO 27001 requirement fulfillment, plus multi-year experience with ISO 20000. She also brings long-running privacy capability, with more than seven years working with GDPR for Atea Group. Before becoming CISO in April 2025, she held several roles that blend quality, information security governance, and group coordination across the Baltics—building a strong foundation for scaling consistent security expectations across multiple countries and operating models.
Grigorij Strelec — Chief Information Security Officer, Copla
Grigorij Strelec is a certified Chief Information Security Officer with over 10 years of experience and a strong technical foundation. His profile emphasizes building and maintaining information security programs aligned to laws, regulations, and standards such as ISO 27001 through the creation of comprehensive policies, processes, and procedures. He has also successfully built a SOC team utilizing modern cybersecurity tools to deliver effective security operations services, alongside strong expertise in investigating and handling cybersecurity incidents. This combination—program leadership plus SOC build-out and incident handling—signals a practitioner-led leadership style focused on measurable operational outcomes.
Julius Lisauskas — Chief Information Security Officer, Vilniaus vandenys
Julius Lisauskas is a cybersecurity leader with more than 12 years of experience overseeing information security and OT/IT cybersecurity. His stated focus is cyber risk management, NIS2 readiness, and strengthening organizational resilience—especially relevant for essential services. His practical experience includes implementing requirements spanning Lithuania’s cybersecurity law, NIS2, ISO/IEC 27001, and GDPR, as well as tying cyber risk assessments directly to business impact. He also highlights incident response, crisis management, and exercise planning, plus strengthening OT and critical infrastructure security. His approach explicitly frames cybersecurity as a business risk discipline—working with leadership and the board to make security proportional to risk and effective in day-to-day operations, with strong emphasis on security culture and training.
Eimantas Tautkevičius — Chief Information Security Officer, UAB Remit Choice Limited
Eimantas Tautkevičius is Chief Information Security Officer at UAB Remit Choice Limited, alongside serving as a board member. His profile blends technology leadership and security with fintech and financial services context, including experience as Chief Technology Officer prior to the CISO role. His background includes project leadership and technical depth across systems and platforms (including SQL, PHP, SCADA, and Apache), alongside governance-oriented responsibilities such as risk management and board oversight. He also references experience with DORA reporting, positioning him in the operational reality of regulated financial services where compliance, resilience, and security execution must move together.
Audronė Gailiūtė — Chief Information Security Officer, Payall Payment Systems, Inc.
Audronė Gailiūtė is Chief Information Security Officer at Payall Payment Systems, Inc., bringing more than 15 years of experience across IT security and governance, cybersecurity, and IT risk and controls. Her experience includes leading security frameworks and governance, and operating in environments shaped by PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and GDPR requirements. Prior to Payall, she served as Chief Information Security Officer at Rebellion Pay, and held senior risk and governance leadership roles at Danske Bank (Head of IT Risk & Security Control Assurance) and Barclays (including Head of IT Operational Governance and IT Risk and Security Manager roles). Her track record highlights building and operating validating controls, stakeholder management, and automation-driven improvements—suggesting a leader who focuses on scalable assurance, global operating models, and reliable control execution.
Rasius Sakaitis — Chief Information Security Officer, KN Energies
Rasius Sakaitis is Chief Information Security Officer at KN Energies, based in Klaipėda. His profile blends security leadership with governance and audit credibility—highlighting CISM certification and ISO 27001 Lead Auditor capability. Before KN Energies, he led IT governance and strategy at Lithuanian Railways, covering core governance levers including budgets, vendors and procurement, IT strategy and architecture, and IT risk and security. Earlier roles add breadth across complex industrial and advisory settings: project management in a manufacturing portfolio environment at Outokumpu, IT advisory leadership at KPMG Baltics (including IT governance, information security, private data management, and IT audit), and long-running IT department leadership within Philip Morris Baltic with explicit accountability for IT security and compliance. The through-line is governance, execution, and assurance—useful in energy environments where resilience and auditability matter as much as technical controls.
Dainius Danyla — Chief Information Security Officer, Franmax
Dainius Danyla brings 18+ years of global experience in IT and corporate security management across telecommunications, electricity, security outsourcing, and consulting. His stated strengths are strongly “program-shaped”: developing and leading global information security teams, providing CISO services, and owning governance, risk, and compliance. He also highlights managed security services, and business continuity and disaster recovery planning, testing, and response management—capabilities that typically separate checkbox security from operational resilience. This background suggests a leader comfortable building security as a service capability and running it at scale, with a strong emphasis on continuity and assurance across diverse operational contexts.
Jonas Skardinskas — Chief Information Security Officer, LTG
Jonas Skardinskas is Chief Information Security Officer at LTG (Lithuanian Railways), bringing a rare mix of national cyber leadership and executive-level governance experience. Prior to LTG, he held senior roles at Lithuania’s National Cyber Security Centre (NKSC/CERT-LT), including Director of the National Coordination Center and Director of the Cyber Security Management Department. He also served in board roles at AB “Energijos skirstymo operatorius” (ESO), including as a management board member and supervisory board member—direct exposure to enterprise risk oversight in a critical infrastructure context. Earlier, he led cyber security and IT policy at Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence, and has substantial diplomatic and foreign affairs experience (including postings and roles tied to international representation and policy leadership). That combination positions him as a “system-level” security leader—comfortable bridging national policy, critical infrastructure governance, and enterprise delivery.
Lithuania’s Cybersecurity Leaders and What They Signal About the Market
Across these profiles, Lithuania’s cybersecurity leadership shows two dominant strengths: (1) mature governance and assurance capability—ISO discipline, privacy, audit readiness, and control validation—and (2) hands-on operational security leadership—SOC build-out, incident handling, OT/critical infrastructure focus, and board-facing risk framing. The newer additions reinforce a third theme: resilience at the intersection of critical infrastructure and national cyber ecosystems, where security programs must stand up to real-world disruption and scrutiny. Together, these leaders reflect how Lithuanian organizations translate EU-aligned requirements into operational programs that actually hold up under pressure.