"Not all new developments are revolutionary"
Wim Sonnemans has been CISO at Philips for just under three years. He was recently nominated for the CISO of the Year Award.
"I have a great team of smart people who help take the pressure off"
Kay Behnke joined the international biopharmaceutical company Genmab six years ago. Recently, he has been nominated for the 2026 CISO of the Year Award.
HackShield and CISO Community Nederland join forces to strengthen digital resilience
The HackShield Foundation and CISO Community Netherlands are joining forces to systematically strengthen digital resilience in the Netherlands.
“It’s cool to help the organization mature further and ensure we don’t get hacked”
Walter van Oostrum has been CISO at the CAK, an agency under the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS), for nearly five years. He was recently nominated for the CISO of the Year Award.
"The CISO Award helped us pursue our goal and our objectives internally"
Zalando’s Florence Mottay, who won the CISO of the Year Award last year, looks back and tells us what she and her team have been working on lately.
Cybersecurity Act passes in lower chamber
On April 15, the Dutch House of Representatives passed the bills for the Cybersecurity Act (Cbw) and the Critical Entities Resilience Act (Wet weerbaarheid kritieke entiteiten).
Security gap for applications, APIs, and AI workloads widens, report
Many organizations are struggling to keep up with the security of applications, APIs, and AI workloads. Fewer than a third of surveyed professionals are confident in the overall security of applications.
"Window for defensive AI readiness is closing faster than expected"
The board of CISO Community Netherlands is issuing an urgent warning to senior leadership across both the private and public sectors regarding the emergence of a new generation of AI models.
Cyber as the second front line: what Iranian cyber operations mean for CISOs
Since the start of the joint U.S.–Israeli operation earlier this year, the conflict has extended beyond the physical battlefield into cyberspace.
Report: The striking collapse of the handoff window
In 2022, the median time between an initial access event and the hand-off to a secondary threat group was over 8 hours. By 2025, that window shrank to a median of just 22 seconds.