Digital sovereignty: the hard way or the highway?
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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 ofExploration 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 […]
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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 […]
Unmasking Cyber Threats: A Collaborative Approach to Disrupting Cybercrime
To offer an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at how Europol and its collaborative Law Enforcement Agencies X & Y identified, prioritised, and dismantled the infrastructure of a significant cybercriminal actor, Z. The presentation highlights the strategic and operational measures taken, culminating in recent action days that led to the arrest of key actors and the takedown […]