Based upon the experience and results of the first iteration of dcypher, a thorough quartermasters report, and the first months of initial activities,
we are set to begin. I would like to thank Jan Piet Barthel for
supporting the transition to the new version of dcypher, and
quartermasters Edwin, Hans, Michel, Berry, Liesbeth and Raymond for
their important contributions in creating a good starting point for
dcypher.
dcypher will start it’s three main processes:
agenda-setting, programming, and strengthening the field, across the
whole chain of education, research, business and government. With your
help, we will bring supply, demand and funding together. The project
will not be deemed a success unless we manage to achieve greater
cybersecurity expertise, more knowledge and wider application, and more
economic activity in the coming years!
At the launching party, we
had a matchmaking session to make different people from the whole
innovation chain interact with each other. I’m glad to hear about the
many unexpected matches and exchanges of thoughts. In the subsequent
panel discussion with three dcypher board members,
we touched on important topics in the cybersecurity field that are in
need of a solution. dcypher contributes to the field by facilitating and
stimulating innovation with regard to new, disruptive technologies,
interventions for human behavior in cybersecurity and new organization
and governance models to become structurally cyber-resilient. Below, you
can see a short video impression of the launching party.
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Together with the cybersecurity actors in the Netherlands, dcypher
tackles those problems that do not solve themselves or cannot be solved
by someone else. We start small and specific, with an eye on the big
picture. Here are some of the actions dcypher is now undertaking.
At
the request of the directors of the central government concerned with
cyber security, dcypher is creating a visualization of cybersecurity
policies and financial instruments. In addition, dcypher is asked by the
Topsectors to support in assessing their specific needs for
cybersecurity innovation. These, and other consultations with public and
private parties, platforms and organizations throughout the whole
innovation chain, is providing input for the dcypher agenda-setting: what are the innovation themes the Dutch cybersecurity community should focus on in the coming years?
Based on this agenda, dcypher will continue programming
by formulating new Roadmaps together with aforementioned parties,
platforms and organizations. This will complement our already existing Automatic Vulnerability Research and Crypto-Communications Roadmaps. You are invited to join these Roadmaps and communities. Or, get in touch and discuss your thoughts for the third roadmap..!
To strengthen the field, dcypher will set up a number of
communities to provide input in agenda-setting and support programming.
Also, we are working at both the national and EU levels on better
accessible funding instruments, fitting for cybersecurity innovation,
from parties such as NWO, RVO, EU-DEP and ITEA.
In this context, dcypher published a beta version of a government support portal,
to make financial instruments more accessible and better applicable to
our field. For early next year, dcypher is organizing a tour for all
parties in the whole innovation chain to innovative hot spots in the EU
for matchmaking and collaboration. And finally, we are also working on
summer schools and cybersecurity challenges for the coming year.
You
will be hearing a lot more about these topics in the coming period, but
above all, you will be experiencing them. Let’s go to action!
- Eddy Boot
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