Critical success factors for effective business information security

Prof. Dr. Yuri Bobbert is Chief Information Security Officer at ON2IT, a global cybersecurity player, and professor at Antwerp Management School (AMS). He is the former Group CISO of NN Group & UWV. Through his years of experience as an entrepreneur and manager within companies, he balances between practice and science. His first book was published in 2010 and the second in 2014 describing 25 companies that have applied his methods. In 2018 he published the book Critical success factors for effective business information security and the book “Cybersecurity in 60 minutes” for boards and supervisory bodies. Bobbert holds a double PhD from both the University of Antwerp and Radboud University in the Netherlands. In his dissertation about Maturing Business Information Security (MBIS) he describes both the managerial side of security as well as the technology to measure and administrate it.

Talitha Papelard-Agteres MSc is Director Business Security at Northwave. Prior to Northwave Talitha was Manager Security Operations at KPN (Telecom). As researcher at Antwerp Management School Talitha did research in Critical Success Factors for Effective Business Information Security. Talitha is lecturer at several universities in the Netherlands.