Why Cybersecurity Starts with the Brain
Cybersecurity is often approached as a technical challenge, yet many breaches originate from human behavior. This session explores the human element in cybersecurity through a neuroscience lens, examining how stress, cognitive bias, and decision-making impact security-related actions. Participants will gain insight into why awareness alone is not enough, and how brain responses under pressure influence […]
Strategic dependencies cryptographic products & services
In our deep dive session we will discuss the outcomes of the Analysis regarding dependencies of cryptographic products and services. Research firm Dialogic has made this analysis in 2025 for the Dutch Ministery of Economic Affairs. The outcomes of the analysis will be discussed in light of the Dutch National Cryptography Strategy, current developments and […]
0 incidents, 0 sensors: governing the risks no one owns
Zero incidents. Zero sensors. That’s the official record on GPS disruption in Dutch waters – not because it doesn’t happen, but because no one measures. Zero isn’t safety; zero is blindness dressed as reassurance. This is a systemic risk: too broad for any single organisation, too operational for government, too cross-cutting for existing frameworks. Ship […]
Staying in Control When Geopolitics Becomes the Crisis
Geopolitics has long been treated as background noise in cybersecurity, relevant for strategic discussions, but rarely for day‐to‐day operational decision‐making. That assumption no longer holds. Rising geopolitical tensions increasingly spill into the digital domain, affecting public organizations not only through cyberattacks, but also via sanctions, legal orders, supplier disruption, and political pressure on technology providers. […]
What Yesterday’s Cyber Ops Tell Us About Tomorrow
1. Opening: Europe on the digital frontline: from spillover to systemic exposure 2. The DynoWiper case (Poland, 2025): destructive cyber as strategic signalling 3. From cyber to hybrid warfare: the convergence of cyber, AI, drones and information operations 4. The Ukraine doctrine: how Sandworm operationalised cyber as a wartime capability 5. Spillover into the EU: […]
Geopolitical Resilience: A Central Bank Perspective
Geopolitical tensions increasingly materialise in the cyber domain, directly affecting financial stability, critical infrastructures and public institutions. For central banks, this creates a unique resilience challenge that spans monetary policy, financial supervision and internal operations.
European Security: Technological Innovation in Warfare
Since Russian forces launched their full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war has caused immense human suffering and fundamentally altered Europe’s security landscape. Ukrainian sovereignty has been sustained through unprecedented and costly technological innovation and adaptation on the battlefield. The widespread use of drones and other uncrewed systems, the digitisation of command structures, cyber capabilities, and […]
The Rising Sun: CTI as accelerator of your stakeholders
In a short period of time, Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) at Dutch Railways (NS) evolved into an independent advisory function that helps stakeholders make more targeted, timely, and threat-driven decisions. Positioned as the “Rising Sun” at the center of the security ecosystem, CTI provides direction and energy to domains such as Security Operations, Risk, Architecture, […]
Exploitation at the seams: hybrid threats
The boundary between cybercrime and state-sponsored cyber operations has never been more contested or more consequential. With the ever increasing impact of cyber incidents, fueled by a broad range of increasingly hybrid adversaries, we are facing a multifaceted problem. The mingling of criminal and state actors comes with significant challenges, especially how the Dutch cyber […]
Aligning NIS2 in Practice Across the EU
NIS2 promises a more harmonised cybersecurity landscape across the European Union, but the reality is far more fragmented. As Member States implement the directive differently, organisations face a growing patchwork of requirements and audit expectations. This session offers a practical perspective on how NIS2 is unfolding across the EU. It highlights real challenges, key differences […]