2026-10-30 –, Main Hall
While we were making digital society safer through security research, we got hacked. In this talk Marieke and Roxane will take you on the epic journey of managing a crisis when everyone in your team is a volunteer, a hacker and suddenly part of the incident.
Security people always say it’s not if but when, and in September 2026 our "when" arrived. AI agents hack into DIVD, and the people cleaning up the mess were volunteers with day jobs, whose own accounts and data were part of the breach. This talk is about what it does to people, the nights without sleep, the stress of not knowing what got out and the meltdowns you postpone until the work is done. How did we deal with a situation like this, the effect on those involved (and their families) and were still able to be in control of the narrative/story.
Blazer by day, hoody by night.
Roxane works at the Dutch government, where crisismanagement is one of her expertises. As Head of People and Culture at DIVD she takes care of all the hackers and anything human or organization related. She is also one of the 2 crisismanagers at DIVD.
Marieke got into cybersecurity through target audience research, ended up at the best hacker camp ever and, after kicking her imposter syndrome in the butt, never left. She speaks hacker, boardroom and homo ordinarius and spends most of her days translating between them. You might know her from DIVD as Head of Comms, as director of the DIVD Academy or from her start-up ADVERSIQ.
She loves to talk about the human part of cyber and how to yeet the slop out of the AI slop era. Brace yourself for high energy, questionable memes and very bad jokes (sorry not sorry) and something useful on the side