Cybersecurity Innovation & Technology

This year's CISO preconference followed the same format as the last: three presentations, followed by an "Oxford-style debate".

After three years, CISODAY2026 has become a fixture on the Dutch cybersecurity calendar.

Since the start of the joint U.S.–Israeli operation earlier this year, the conflict has extended beyond the physical battlefield into cyberspace.

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.

By now, we know that AI chatbots can occasionally produce incorrect information. But do we really understand how easily those errors can be engineered?

AI is everywhere. New AI tools are rapidly becoming embedded in enterprise platforms, from security monitoring and data analytics to productivity tools and autonomous agents.

The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has published its first annual State of the Market 2026 report, warning that competition in the Netherlands has been declining steadily for a decade.

Dutch organizations award themselves a 7.1 out of 10 for cyber resilience. That’s the headline conclusion of recent research into how organizations assess their own preparedness for cyber threats.

The Dutch Cybersecurity Innovation Fund (CIF-NL) has initiated a new subsidy round.

2025 was the year cybersecurity crossed a threshold. In 2026, the nature of the challenge changes.