Sovereignty: From Promise to Practice

Digital sovereignty is no longer just an ideal but a practical necessity for organizations seeking true independence from Big Tech or geopolitical influences. This deep-dive session moves beyond theory to explore the real-world challenges and solutions of achieving digital autonomy.Experts will share candid insights on overcoming technical and organizational barriers, driving cultural change, and implementing […]

Cybersecurity Made in Europe: Ambition without an industry?

Europe’s cybersecurity runs almost entirely on American technology. From endpoint detection and cloud security to threat intelligence and vulnerability databases, American companies dominate every layer of the cybersecurity stack. European providers remain predominantly national or regional players and often offer services rather than technology. No European company can provide the pan-European coverage that CrowdStrike, Palo […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]