_Cybersecurity
06/04/2026
Government of St. Maarten Press Release: “Digital Leadership Team Advances Stakeholder Engagement on Cyber-security, Personal Data Protection and Open Data Legislative Framework Under the Digital Government Transformation Project”
I’m happy to share the press release published by the Government of Sint Maarten regarding the work we have been doing on the island! PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – The Digital Leadership Team (DLT) continues to make significant progress under the Digital Government Transformation Project (DGTP) through sustained stakeholder engagements surrounding the development of Sint Maarten’s […]
24/03/2026
Data governance in the connected bike industry
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Katie Sawyer of Bike Europe on the growing importance of data governance in the connected bike industry. As the bicycle industry becomes increasingly digital, technology is playing a central role across products, services, and maintenance. At the same time, compliance is becoming more complex, especially in […]
19/03/2026
Joint Opinion 4/2026 on the European Commission’s proposal for a Cybersecurity Act 2 and the proposal on amendments to the Network and Information Security 21919 Directive.
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Cybersecurity
Yesterday, 18 March 2026, the European Data Protection Board and the EDPS – European Data Protection Supervisor adopted Joint Opinion on the European Commission’s proposal for a Cybersecurity Act 2 (CSA2) and the proposal on amendments to the Network and Information Security 2 (NIS2) Directive, accessible here.
21/08/2025
My interview with L1 Nieuws on data breaches and digital resilience
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Cybersecurity
I was recently interviewed by L1 Nieuws’s Christa Koeyvoets for her Dutch-language article titled How do you avoid becoming a victim of a data breach? “Virtually impossible”, published on 20 August 2025. The article a reality that is often uncomfortable but increasingly evident – in a society that relies heavily on digital services, it is […]
23/05/2022
“ADVANCED CYBERSECURITY AND GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY” COURSE WEEK 6: Tutorial #7
Today marks the final tutorial in the “Advanced Cybersecurity and Global Cybersecurity Strategy” course at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC)! The course has truly flown by! Following Mika Lauhde’s lecture on cybersecurity and 5G networks, in today’s tutorial, students will briefly discuss the cybersecurity evolution of 2G, 3G, 4G and LTE networks, also touching […]
19/05/2022
“ADVANCED CYBERSECURITY AND GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY” COURSE WEEK 6: Cybersecurity and 5G networks
We’re kicking off the sixth and final week of the “Advanced Cybersecurity and Global Cybersecurity Strategy” course with a lecture from Mika Lauhde on Cybersecurity and 5G networks. Today our students of the Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity, Data Management and Leadership LLM at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) will take a deep […]
12/05/2022
“ADVANCED CYBERSECURITY AND GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY” COURSE WEEK 5: Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence
It’s already week 5 of the “Advanced Cybersecurity and Global Cybersecurity Strategy” course at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC)! This afternoon Mika Lauhde will provide our students with a lecture on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence. AI has multiple and diverse roles when it comes to cybersecurity. AI may be used both to compromise organisational security and […]
05/05/2022
“ADVANCED CYBERSECURITY AND GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY” COURSE WEEK 4: Cybersecurity in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Infrastructures
This afternoon Professor Giampaolo Bella will lecture on Cybersecurity in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Infrastructures for our students of the “Advanced Cybersecurity and Global Cybersecurity Strategy” course within the Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity, Data Management and Leadership LLM at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC)! During this fourth week of the course, we […]
03/05/2022
“ADVANCED CYBERSECURITY AND GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY” COURSE WEEK 3: Tutorial #4
It’s tutorial time again! Following Brian Honan’s cybersecurity in the cloud lecture last week, this afternoon students will be presented with a scenario where a business is looking to migrate a system, e.g., the organisation’s HR system, to a cloud-based solution. More specifically, students will be tasked with determining the type of cloud platform (i.e., […]
16/03/2022
New ground-breaking framework for building a sustainable data-driven economy: Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility
I’m extremely pleased that what I first envisioned in 2017 and presented in my inaugural lecture at Maastricht University in 2019 has taken shape – today we have published the first-ever complete CSR framework for data protection aimed at improving privacy and security for a sustainable digital future! The Maastricht University Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility Framework (UM-DPCSR) is the result of the related […]