How we accidentally built a nation-scale tracking system

What if tracking someone’s real-time location didn’t require malware or exploits, but just a phone call? In 2026, a critical misconfiguration in a European telco network allowed callers to determine a person’s location without the call being answered, and without leaving meaningful traces. Affecting a large portion of a national subscriber base, this issue exposed […]

Exploratory Study on Certification of Cyberprofessionals

We are conducting an exploratory study to determine which certification could help strengthen quality assurance in the cybersecurity sector. The labor market, after all, has a particular need for professionals with high-level knowledge and skills. Currently, there is insufficient insight into this quality assurance. Our exploratory study focuses in a general sense on gaining insight […]

Leading the fight against cybercrime

This panel explores leadership in fighting cybercrime within law enforcement and prosecution in a rapidly evolving cyber landscape, accelerated by AI, marked by increasing complexity and mass victimisation. It focuses on how organisations can move from reactive approaches towards more adaptive and forward-looking ways of working, and the role of more human-centred and connective leadership […]

Vishing At Scale: Humans vs. Voice Agents

Over the past several years, I’ve run more than a thousand human-to-human vishing calls. Now I’m conducting the same operations with fully automated voice agents, at scale, across F500 and government targets. This presentation is the before/after: humans versus voice agents in real operations. Not a controlled academic study, that’s not how internal red teams […]

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 […]

Panel on European cyber security skills

The cyber security skills gap is an European challenge. There is a growing need of cyber security professionals with different skillsets in a fast-moving world. Across Europe there are many initiatives to tackle the cyber security skills gap. This panel brings together different perspectives from across the continent to address the needs, opportunities and challenges […]

Exercise Windshield: Offshore wind’s stress test

What happens when an adversary pulls the plug on an entire offshore wind sector? Under the FLECS programme of Energy Innovation NL, six industry partners (TenneT, Ørsted, RWE, Eneco, Gemini Windpark and Siemens Energy), the AIVD, NCSC and Bureau Veritas mapped the sector’s attack surface and ran Exercise Windshield: the Netherlands’ first sector-wide cyber crisis […]