Marloes van Vliet

Martin de Vries is CISO at VDL. Before that, he held the same role at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), where he experienced up close how a cyber crisis can turn an organisation upside down in an instant. In this interview, Martin shares what crisis exercises actually mean when it’s real. How practising ensures you

A cyber crisis rarely announces itself neatly. There’s no starting gun, and almost never immediate, complete clarity. There’s a report, a suspicion, a few signals that don’t add up. And meanwhile, everyone is looking at the same people in the organization with one expectation: take control and fix it. According to Cees Berrens, that is

Jochem Smit is a Senior Crisis Management Trainer at CCRC and brings hands-on experience from real ransomware incidents. At Northwave, he was one of four senior crisis managers responding to major cyber incidents. “They were all ransomware cases.” In those situations, an organization’s infrastructure is partly or completely down. Companies, often via their insurer, quickly

Jelle Niemantsverdriet is a Senior Crisis Management Trainer at CCRC, with more than twenty years of experience in cybersecurity and incident response. He has worked at Fox-IT, Verizon, Deloitte, and Microsoft, helping organizations respond to incidents and build crisis management capabilities. In this interview, he explains where teams often stumble, what makes an exercise truly

​Chris van ‘t Hof, as director of DIVD, is used to seeing vulnerabilities before they become incidents. But in CCRC crisis training, he sits on the other side of the spectrum: there he sees what happens once things do go wrong and how quickly a technical problem turns into a management stress test. He writes