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Koen van Tankeren: “Communicate, even when you don’t have all the answers yet”

When a cyber incident strikes, attention tends to focus on systems and recovery. Yet communication largely determines how a crisis unfolds. In the CCRC podcast, Kelvin Rorive spoke with Koen van Tankeren, who has been advising organisations on spokesmanship and crisis communication for more than twenty years. They discussed what to say when you still

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CCRC signs Prometheus manifesto: together faster than AI-driven cyber threats

​Today in The Hague, the manifesto 'Samen sneller dan de dreiging' (Together faster than the threat) was presented to Willemijn Aerdts, State Secretary for Digital Economy and Sovereignty. CCRC is one of the signatories. With this, we join Prometheus, a public-private initiative under the banner of Digital Holland that is building a collective digital defence

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What 160 experts proved in one hour about cyber crisis management

Imagine a room full of CISOs, security managers and crisis specialists. You hand them a realistic data breach scenario, a ticking clock and the assignment to find their way through it together. What would you expect? Probably this: debate about forensic investigation, discussion about detection technology, disagreements about incident response tooling. What actually happened at

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SSC-ONS runs realistic cyber crisis exercise with CCRC

Shared Service Centrum ONS (SSC-ONS) is a partnership between six municipalities and the province of Overijssel. From its base in Zwolle, Ons delivers shared services in IT, HR and procurement. Within that IT service delivery, cybersecurity and crisis management are key responsibilities: a hack at Ons directly affects multiple government organisations and the citizens they

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Kansrijk Onderwijs Enschede (KOE) makes crisis management tangible through exercises and clear roles

At Kansrijk Onderwijs Enschede (KOE), digital resilience is no longer an abstract theme. As a foundation with thirty primary schools, one special primary education school, and a language school, KOE operates in a complex environment with large amounts of personal data, many processes, and a wide variety of staff members. In that kind of setting,

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Martin Koopmans: “No crisis ever unfolds according to plan, and that is exactly why you need to practise”

According to Martin Koopmans, cyber crisis readiness is not about detailed playbooks or theoretical scenarios, but about something far more practical: knowing what to do when things go wrong and having genuinely practised it. “No two crises are the same. But if you practise, you at least know who is responsible for what, how the

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SSH Utrecht strengthens cyber resilience with realistic crisis simulations

SSH Utrecht manages student housing and everything that comes with it, from rental processes and resident data to building-related systems that are increasingly connected to the internet. With such a broad internet footprint, ranging from back-office applications to cameras and solar panels, the potential impact of a cyber incident also grows. That is why SSH

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Martin de Vries: “During a crisis, the adrenaline is right up to your scalp: that’s why you have to practise”

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

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