Digital sovereignty: the hard way or the highway?
Digital security, resilience and sovereignty are amongst the most urgent and defining challenges of our time. Textbook ‘wicked problems’: complex, multidimensional, ever evolving, with no one‑size‑fits‑all solutions. Yet in today’s rapidly shifting geopolitical and technological landscape, organisations across sectors feel the pressure to act and struggle with the same questions. How do you determine what […]
Humans as crucial partners in cybersecurity & resilience
Cybersecurity has evolved from a technical discipline into an interdisciplinary field that increasingly recognizes humans as a valuable resource. A new paradigm shifts focus from blaming human error to empowering people as part of the solution. This framework aims to strengthen cyber resilience by supporting employees in detecting, addressing, and recovering from incidents. We will […]
Keynote: Can Humans Be the Solution? From Shifting Mindsets to Shifting Gears in Cybersecurity Practice
“Our phishing click rate is 17%.” Statics like this are often used to illustrate the cybersecurity risk employees pose, cementing the narrative that humans are “the weakest link.” But is that the whole story, or can we look at human behavior differently? What if employees could actually become the solution and strengthen an organization’s cyber […]
Keynote: Mapping Microsoft: A Tale of Exploration and 200 Vulnerabilities
After 16 years in offensive cybersecurity, presenting at Black Hat USA and becoming a Microsoft Most Valuable Researcher in 2025, Vaisha still felt like an impostor. So, he set himself the goal to become #1 on Microsoft’s Security Researcher leaderboard. This is the tale of how he grinded long nights, exploring a mucky sea of […]
Blended Threats, Blurred Lines
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 […]
Taking Down the Enablers: How International Cooperation Disrupts the Cybercrime Ecosystem
Cybercrime does not operate in isolation. Behind ransomware groups and other threat actors lies an ecosystem of services that provides the infrastructure, anonymity and resilience they need to operate. In May 2026, French and Dutch authorities dismantled First VPN, a service specifically catering to cybercriminals and used to facilitate ransomware attacks and other serious cybercrime. […]
Catch up to keep up: how to connect cybersecurity, AI, and the economy to rebuild our basis?
This panel will explore the complicated relationship between cybersecurity, AI technology, the economy and digital sovereignty in the present turbulent times. Rapid technological developments put enormous pressure on established cybersecurity practices. There is a ubiquitous feeling that we need to rebuild our foundation for cybersecurity. To keep up, we need to catch up. We struggle […]