Dr Rain Ottis is currently the Professor of Cyber Operations and the Head of the Centre for Digital Forensics and Cyber Security at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. From 2008 to 2012 he served as a researcher at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, contributing to the creation of CyCon, the Locked Shields exercise series and the Tallinn Manual.
Prior to that assignment he served as a signal officer in the Estonian Defence Forces, focusing primarily on cyber defence training and awareness. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy (BS, Computer Science) and Tallinn University of Technology (PhD, Computer Science; MSc, Informatics). His research interests include cyber conflict, national cyber security and cyber security exercises.