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Jochem Smit: “The aftermath of ransomware is often worse than the attack” cover

Jochem Smit: “The aftermath of ransomware is often worse than the attack”

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 […]

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Platform Veilig Ondernemen (PVO) helps small SMEs take their first steps in cyber resilience cover

Platform Veilig Ondernemen (PVO) helps small SMEs take their first steps in cyber resilience

Platform Veilig Ondernemen (PVO) supports SME owners across the Netherlands in better protecting themselves against crime, from theft and aggression to cybercrime and criminal interference. PVO works regionally with partners such as municipalities, trade associations and entrepreneur networks, and deliberately chooses an approach that stays close to the entrepreneur: practical, easy to understand, and focused

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Jelle Niemantsverdriet: “The biggest vulnerability in a crisis is silence” cover

Jelle Niemantsverdriet: “The biggest vulnerability in a crisis is silence”

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

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What do you do when things go wrong? SIDN tested crisis management during the Kickstart cover

What do you do when things go wrong? SIDN tested crisis management during the Kickstart

SIDN operates at the heart of the internet in the Netherlands: as the manager of the .nl domain, they ensure every day that people reach the correct .nl address. With a mission revolving around a promising and carefree digital existence for everyone, the bar is set high when it comes to quality, security, and privacy,

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Municipality of The Hague helps SMEs move forward with practical cyber resilience cover

Municipality of The Hague helps SMEs move forward with practical cyber resilience

​The Municipality of The Hague approaches digital security from two angles: as a city that attracts cybersecurity companies, and as a driver of cyber resilience among “everyday” entrepreneurs; from bakers to butchers. This latter group often has limited time, limited attention, and (so far) limited sense of urgency, even as their dependence on digital systems

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What do you do when things go wrong? SIDN tested crisis management during the Kickstart

SIDN operates at the heart of the internet in the Netherlands: as the manager of the .nl domain, they ensure every day that people reach the correct .nl address. With a mission revolving around a promising and carefree digital existence for everyone, the bar is set high when it comes to quality, security, and privacy,

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Chris van ‘t Hof: “In a crisis, you’re not automatically in charge, even if you’re the CEO of the company”

​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

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