Kay Behnke is CISO of the Year 2026
Kay Behnke, CISO at Genmab, won the CISO of the Year Award last night. He earned the award for his efforts to integrate Genmab’s security team into existing business processes successfully.
National Incident Response Framework for Healthcare institutions
Since April 2026, Dutch hospitals, university medical centers, and other healthcare institutions have access to a strictly secured national cyber crisis response network via Z-CERT.
Ransomware victims up nearly fivefold due to criminal AI use
The manufacturing industry, business services, and retail are the hardest hit by ransomware. The time between the discovery and exploitation of a new security vulnerability has dropped from 4 days to 24 hours.
"Not all new developments are revolutionary"
Wim Sonnemans has been CISO at Philips for just under three years. He was recently nominated for the CISO of the Year Award.
One in three children talks to strangers in online games
Large-scale research among 85,000 children aged 8 to 12 shows that young gamers regularly encounter strangers, bullying and social pressure in online gaming environments.
"I have a great team of smart people who help take the pressure off"
Kay Behnke joined the international biopharmaceutical company Genmab six years ago. Recently, he has been nominated for the 2026 CISO of the Year Award.
HackShield and CISO Community Nederland join forces to strengthen digital resilience
The HackShield Foundation and CISO Community Netherlands are joining forces to systematically strengthen digital resilience in the Netherlands.
“It’s cool to help the organization mature further and ensure we don’t get hacked”
Walter van Oostrum has been CISO at the CAK, an agency under the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS), for nearly five years. He was recently nominated for the CISO of the Year Award.
"The CISO Award helped us pursue our goal and our objectives internally"
Zalando’s Florence Mottay, who won the CISO of the Year Award last year, looks back and tells us what she and her team have been working on lately.
Cybersecurity Act passes in lower chamber
On April 15, the Dutch House of Representatives passed the bills for the Cybersecurity Act (Cbw) and the Critical Entities Resilience Act (Wet weerbaarheid kritieke entiteiten).