AI in the kill chAIn: a new frontier of digital threats?
This talk will provide an insight in how artificial intelligence is influencing the digital threat landscape. It will examine real-life cases of how threat actors utilize AI in different parts of the cyber kill chain. The examples show how certain parts of the kill chain are being automated, run more efficiently and sometimes even replaced […]
CISO survey insights: trends & priorities for 2026
This presentation draws on a 2026 survey and interview series with 27 cybersecurity leaders in the Netherlands to show how CISO priorities are evolving under pressure from regulation, AI, operational complexity, and growing reliance on cloud and third parties. The findings reveal a shift away from traditional control-focused security toward stronger auditability, resilience, monitoring maturity, […]
Security Innovation Lab for OT: from innovation-silo’s to the SILO-collaboration.
The Security Innovation LAB for OT (SILO) brings the critical infrastructure in the Netherlands two major innovation shifts. Namely shaping the innovation agenda within the critical sectors of the OT domain and it provides a solution for a programmatic approach to cyber innovation. This calls for cooperation. In this session the NCSC, TNO and the […]
Squaring the Circle: Lawful Access to Encrypted Data while preserving Cyber Security
In 2025, the EU Commission presented a roadmap for effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement. This presentation will cover the conflicting needs of law enforcement and the cyber security community, explain why old wiretapping regulations cannot easily be transferred to the Internet age, and survey the solution space. The focus will be […]
Collaborating in the Cyber Resilience Network &Cyclotron
The Netherlands is taking a major step forward in public–private cyber resilience through the development of the Cyber Resilience Network (Cyberweerbaarheidsnetwerk/CWN) and the Cyclotron collaboration. Through these initiatives, we are jointly building a new, trusted ecosystem that structurally strengthens public–private cooperation. This session presents practical examples of types of collaboration, the results thereof, and lessons […]
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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. […]
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, […]
VShell: Tracking a State-Actor C2 Framework in the Wild
VShell is a post-exploitation command and control framework increasingly observed in intrusions targeting government and critical infrastructure sectors. Following NVISO’s initial research and publication, we continued tracking VShell infrastructure globally to understand how it is deployed and operated by state-linked threat actors. This session opens with a concise technical overview of VShell: how it works […]
International Perspectives on NCSC-NL’s CCB Program
The NCSC-NL Cyber Capacity Building (CCB) program focuses on strengthening cyber resilience in priority regions such as the Indo-Pacific, Eastern Europe, and the Western Balkans. In this session, we’ll share insights from our international missions, Train-the-Trainer programs, and collaborations with partners such as FIRST & MFA-NL. We’ll discuss how we protect critical infrastructure, promote CSIRT […]