Rijkswaterstaat is responsible for the design, construction, management and maintenance of the main infrastructure facilities in the Netherlands. I’m a senior advisor in the Security Centre of Rijkswaterstaat, tasked with policy creation and operational/tactical governance tasks. For my master thesis I researched how engineers of Storm Surge Barriers can share cybersecurity information in a transnational setting. My background of 20+ years is in mainly in technical IT with a security role since 2010.