Podcasts

Ultimately, it is IT specialists who keep our industry safe. But with software as a service and cloud solutions, much of their work is disappearing and with it, ultimately, expertise. This is highly undesirable, argue two of our guests we heard earlier in this series Bert Hubert (episode 1) and Roland van Rijswijk-Deij (episode 2). In this short episode, we look for the solution.

How is it that board members do not always make important cybersecurity decisions with the right information? Do board members and techies even speak the same language? How can they find each other better in a place where they can move forward from?

72% of all hacks at educational institutions are related to human behaviour. Time for behavioural change, right? Or is it not as easy as it seems?

Why five years ago did a large group of cyber security scientists write a fire letter to all educational institutions entitled: Cloud: think before you start? And what do you do as a board member when you get a call on Sunday afternoon that you have been hacked?

Listen now to the new episode of the series Cybersteering

In this series, we look for answers to the questions: where the Netherlands stands, what it looks like when things go wrong, how to get the right information, how to motivate people and how to make the right choices
for the future?

The American ChatGPT had great impact upon release. Now TNO, the Netherlands Forensic Institute and SURF are working on a Dutch language model; GPT-NL. Why that is badly needed and how we are approaching it tells Thomas van Osch, machine learning advisor at SURF.

Hype always seems to come out of nowhere. Blockchain, AI: suddenly it's there, and seems to be everywhere. But is this actually the case?

Supercomputing is indispensable in much research in the Netherlands. Why actually? What does the national supercomputer Snellius bring to our scientists? And why should we not run after Big Tech in the race to the fastest supercomputer?