Cyber Security District

Join Laurens Jagt as he dives into a fascinating discussion with Vaisha Bernard, Chief Hacker and Co-Owner of Eye Security. Vaisha starts from his early career, touching on his impactful stint with the intelligence service that shaped his trajectory of building Eye Security.  Hear about the challenges and opportunities the Covid-19 pandemic brought, the impact of a 17 million Euro investment, and their decision to stop their consultancy services. Vaisha also shares his advice for the younger generation interested in Cyber Security, touching upon imposter syndrome and the importance of investing more in detection and response rather than just prevention.

In this episode, Laurens Jagt sat down with Wim Hafkamp to chat about all things cybersecurity.  From setting up the first-ever Cyber Security Department at AkzoNobel in the 90’s, to becoming the global CISO of Rabobank, and even visiting the White House about national security issues. Wim's career is packed with "WOW" moments, and currently Wim the Managing Director at the Z-CERT, a non for profit organization, designed to protect the Dutch Health Care Sector This episode is full of great stories, hard-learned lessons, and insider information from Wim's exciting journey. 

In episode one of Cyber Security Talks Podcast's third season, we uncover the revolutionary field of Zero Trust security with Zero Trust Architect and expert Jacky Willems.   Learn about his transition from private to governmental roles, his perspective on cyber security recruitment, and the move towards cloud-based systems. Gain entrepreneurial insights for cyber security careers and learn how to identify passion during recruitment, all while exploring the importance of Zero Trust Architecture in modern cyber security. A must-listen for anyone interested in staying ahead of the rapidly evolving cybersecurity sector.   Find more out more about the Zero Trust Collective:  https://watchmen.io/   Find out more about Cyber Security Recruitment  https://csrecruitment.nl/    

In this episode, we talk to Olaf Hartong, one of the founders of Falcon Force. We talk about shifting careers and comfort zones and how he made the shift from a safe IT job into photography and then finally into cyber security. Olaf started out his career in the IT industry and shifted careers for the first time to seek his passion in photography and then later on ended up in the cyber security industry which then ultimately lead him to founding Falcon Force after leaving one of the Big4 consultancies.  We discuss his special founding story of Falcon Force, how photography helps him with carrying out his job as a founder and why it is important to be more truthful to your own board of directors.    Find out more about Olaf: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olafhartong/ https://olafhartong.nl    

Today we had the pleasure of talking to Cyber Security and Privacy evangelist  - Jort Kollerie. Jort is a seasoned professional who is currently Manager of Security Architecture & Security Services at Orange Cyberdefense. In this episode, we talked about his evangelist role, the ever-evolving threat landscape, his management style and why there should be no competition between cyber security companies.   Find out more about Jort:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jortkol/ https://jort.kollerie.info/  

We are back with an exciting episode with  Manuel Garat, Head of Identity and Access Management at Booking.com. In this episode, we talk about his three passions: IT Engineering, Cyber Security and Agile Product delivery as well as his unconventional way into cyber security, how access management is done in multi-nationals and upcoming challenges to fight cyber crime.  Find out more about Manuel Garat:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuel-garat-loureiro-a19aa840/ https://twitter.com/manuelgarat  

Today we switch it up and instead of interviewing an exciting start-up or company from the Cyber Security Industry, we take a look behind the scenes with Reinout vander Meulen who is in charge of the Dutch Security TechFund for TIIN Capital on how investment decisions are made to find the next unicorn in the industry. In this episode we talked about his start-up experience, the similarities of aerospace and cyber security and his vision of scouting the next unicorn in the Cyber Security space.   Find out more about Reinout:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/reinout-vander-meulen-4b24681/ https://tiincapital.nl/en/dutch-security-techfund/  

In this week's episode, we had the honor of welcoming the founder of Hadrian - Rogier Fischer and Oliver Beg to the podcast. Hadrian is a hacker-led cybersecurity startup that offers automated security insights through its AI-driven testing SaaS platform, which recently secured €10.5M in an unsolicited seed round. In this episode, we talked about the seed funds for Hadrian, hacking stories with Kim Kardashian and the importance of autonomous technology in the cyber security landscape.   Find out more about Hadrian:  https://hadrian.io https://www.linkedin.com/in/rogierfischer/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivierbeg/    

Feliks Voskoboynik, CISO of the A.S Watson Group joined us on the Cyber Security Talks Podcast to talk about his childhood dream to become a FBI agent, the importance of teamwork in cyber security and why security specialists have to come up with a better story to get buy-in within the organization than instilling fear. A powerful and entertaining episode with fun anecdotes and practical tips for all industry experts.

This is the first Cyber Security Talks episode with a CISO on our microphone and not any CISO, but the CISO of the Dutch Cancer Institute - Joost Boele. We talked about his impressive career that started with researching cancer cells as part of his PHD program, to later on fully indulging into the cyber security space in which he left his mark in many organizations until he joined the Dutch Cancer Institute as a CISO. An impressive career with many twists and turns - but never without fun and a challenge.