Mauro Vignati started his career with the first unit of the Swiss Federal Police, participated in the first Swiss center for public-private partnerships in the field of cyber security for critical infrastructure and founded the Cyber Threat Intelligence division in the Department of Defense. He also set up Vulnerability Management within the National Cyber Security Center NCSC.ch and led the Swiss government's first bug bounty program. At the ICRC, he focuses on the militarization of the digital domain, cognitive cyber warfare, the role of digital capabilities in a defense concept and implications for critical civilian infrastructures and society as a whole.