Jan Populaire
SME’s and Cyber Security Awareness: when will the horse drink?
What can you do to decrease the cyber risk in your SME? Make people aware they can be the next victim, discuss the risks & threats, stick to them with demo’s, selftests, games, storytelling, incentives, trainings, a lot of carrots and o yeah, sometimes a stick. But all that might not be enough to change insecure behaviour into a safe attitude.
Most Belgian SME’s are not working on the cyber security awaress of their staff despite lots of governmental (the Belgian regions, the federal government, Europe,…) encouragements, ranging from subsidized programmes to important financial incentives to increase cyber resilience.
Jan Populaire has a Master’s degree in Germanic Philology KULeuven and is a marketing & communication specialist. The past seven years Jan has been working in the BNP Paribas Fortis Centre of Expertise Security. He organized security awareness actions & training for staff and customers. He is an engaged member of the Cyber Security Coalition Focus Group Awareness (co-chair till end 2023) and strongly believes that cooperation between enterprises, academic world and governmental organisations is key to counter cybercrime effectively.
Jan will guide you through the wood and illustrate his story with practical examples that have proven to work.
Theo Francken 🇧🇪
Belgium's Minister of Defence and Foreign Trade
Connie McIntosh 🇦🇺🇫🇮
Head of Security, Ericsson
Éléonore Simonet 🇧🇪
Belgium's Minister for SME's
Ken Munro 🇬🇧
Ethical Hacker, Pen Test Partners
Mario Beccia 🇮🇹
Director Cybersecurity, Council of the European Union
Chris Kubecka 🇺🇸
CEO, HypaSec
Thomas Stubbings 🇦🇹🇬🇧
CEO, Cyber Trust Services GmbH
Katleen Seeuws 🇧🇪🇺🇸
Vice President Standards & Guidance, CIA, CGAP, CRMA, CFE, CISA
David Martens 🇧🇪
Head of Product Security, Barco
Pierre Ciparisse 🇧🇪
Belgian Cyber Force & Cyber Command, SGRS / Belgian Defence
Andrea Campora 🇮🇹
Managing Director, Leonardo’s Cyber & Security Solutions Division Chairperson of ECSO
Liliana Musetan 🇷🇴
Head of Unit Council of the European Union
Vladimir Kropotov🇷🇺
Principal Researcher – Head of User Behavior Research, TrendAI
Pascal Rogiest 🇱🇺
General manager Clarence, joint venture LuxConnect & Proximus
Henri van Soest 🇧🇪
Senior Analyst & Professor, RAND Europe / RAND School of Public Policy
Paul Bayle
Group CISO, Atos Group
Robert Lipovsky 🇸🇰
Principal Threat Intelligence Researcher, ESET
Stefaan Hinderyckx 🇧🇪
Senior Vice President Cybersecurity, NTT DATA
Marc Samson 🇨🇼🇳🇱
Board Member and Director of Research, ISACA
Jo De Muynck 🇧🇪
Head of the Operational Cooperation Unit of the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, ENISA
Kristof Tuyteleers 🇧🇪
Chief Information Security Officer, DNS Belgium
Thibault Bougon 🇫🇷
Field CTO EMEA, SentinelOne
Daniel Du Seuil 🇧🇪
Innovation Manager, Blue Cluster
Nick Peeters 🇧🇪
Founder and Chief Visionary Officer, Soterics
Vandy Berten 🇧🇪
ICT Researcher, SMALS
Bertrand Michaux & Denis Hiernaux 🇧🇪
Bertrand, Researcher and Coordinator of Industrial Computing, Haute Ecole Louvain en Hainaut | Denis, Datacenter Project Manager, Haute Ecole Louvain en Hainaut
Yves Van Seters 🇧🇪
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Sarah Ampe 🇧🇪
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