Martin Hromada

Martin Hromada graduated master education in Tomas Bata University in Zlin (TBU) in the study programme Security Technologies, Systems and Management in 2008. His dissertation thesis: “Technological aspects of critical infrastructure protection in SR” was defended in 2011. In 2017, he defended his habilitation thesis at the Faculty of Safety Engineering, VŠB - TU in Ostrava, and received the academic title of associate professor in Safety and Fire Protection. In the years 2010 - 2015 he worked in Deloitte Advisory Ltd. as a consultant and lead of the security research projects, Critical Infrastructure Protection in the Electricity Production, Transmission and Distribution Sector, and Actual Cyber Threats of Czech Republic and their Elimination. He currently works as an associated professor at the Department of Security Engineering, Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin. He is a project manager and leads the security research project RESILIENCE 2015 Dynamic Resilience Evaluation of Interrelated Critical Infrastructure Subsystems. Within the scientific-research, activities are mostly dedicated to the protection and resilience of critical (information) infrastructure issues and assessment of the physical protection systems functionality. He is a member of significant national expert groups of the Czech and Slovak Republic Ministry of Interior and the European institutions such as ERNCIP and CIWIN. He regularly participated in practical exercises relating to the protection of energy infrastructures (ARGOS project Bucharest, Bulgaria, Krizovany Slovakia, NATO CoE, Vilnius, Lithuania).

Publications

Safety and Security Issues in Technical Infrastructures
David Rehak, Ales Bernatik, Zdenek Dvorak, Martin Hromada. © 2020. 499 pages.
In the modern age of urbanization, the mass population is becoming progressively reliant on technical infrastructures. These industrial buildings provide integral services to the...
Electricity Infrastructure Technical Security: Practical Application and Best Practices of Risk Assessment
Martin Hromada, David Rehak, Neil Walker. © 2020. 30 pages.
In general, energy infrastructure is a basic but very complex system of elements, interconnections, functional inputs and outputs, which creates the need to break down...