CISOs under siege: building anti-fragile security
4th December 2024 • Novotel Amsterdam City, Netherlands
The Benelux countries are prime targets for political and economic hackers. What’s next?
Building a hybrid security/resilience response
Hackers have been busy in Benelux – very busy. In the Netherlands, in May, one of ABN AMRO’s suppliers, AddComm, was attacked by ransomware. As a result, unauthorised parties obtained access to data of a limited number of ABN AMRO clients.
The 2024 European Parliament election started in the Netherlands on June 6, 2024, and continued through June 9 in the other 26 countries that are part of the European Union. DDoS attacks targeted multiple election or politically-related Internet sites on election day in the Netherlands and then other European countries.
The cyberattacks were claimed by a pro-Russian hacker group called HackNeT on the social media site Telegram.
In Belgium, there have been waves of attacks on public service websites as well as on Belgian beer firm Duvel. The company was victim of a ransomware attack that shut down five of its production facilities.
And in late March, around 70 websites in Luxembourg fell victim to a major wave of cyberattacks, prompting heightened concerns about cybersecurity within the country.
With these levels of threat, security has to be combined with broader resilience. But what does that mean in terms of security spend, security technology upgrades, and staffing?
Are you sure that technology is not being duplicated, that the solutions chosen are the most effective, that core components such as E5 licences are being fully utilised and that new technology like AI is being used carefully as an overlay rather than requiring legacy systems to be ripped out?
And how do you overlay resilience on top – and whose job is that?
Come to the e-Crime & Cybersecurity Congress Benelux to find out:
- How are your fellow cybersecurity professionals coping with these challenges day-to- day?
- Does NIS2 help and what must you do to incorporate its requirements?
- What practical steps you can take to get better supplier visibility and understanding?
- How to economically enhance the security built into Cloud infrastructure and applications with selected additional technologies.
- How new and not-so-new EU Directives are driving the Board view of cybersecurity risk and investment.
