Centre of Expertise Cyber Security
The importance of digital security has become indispensable for the world we live in. The mission of the Centre of Expertise Cyber Security is to strengthen the cyber resilience of public and private organisations that are themselves less equipped to deal with cyber threats. Cyber resilience represents the ability of organisations to recognise cyber threats and respond to them appropriately. The focus on cyber resilience stems from the observation that organisations will all have to deal with cyber incidents sooner or later and therefore need to focus not only on preventive measures, but also, for example, on detection and response.
In order to gain a better understanding of how to realise cyber resilience, our research focuses on three sub-areas:
- People: which behavioural and attitudinal aspects influence cyber resilience and how can organisations improve these aspects for cyber resilience?
- Organisation: which organisational aspects influence cyber resilience and how can organisations improve these aspects for cyber resilience?
- Technology: which technical aspects influence cyber resilience and how can organisations improve these aspects for cyber resilience?
Since its establishment in 2015, the Centre of Expertise Cyber Security has grown rapidly, and a great deal of practice-oriented research has been completed. We remain committed to sustaining previous successes and creating synergies between practice-oriented research, education and professional practice.
Research groups
Research Group Risk Management & Cyber Security
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Cyber crises require anticipation and improvisation
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Leading a cyber incident response team
Team
dr. Rutger Leukfeldt
Professor Cyber Security in the SME sector
dr. Ligaya Butalid
Secretary Centre of Expertise Cyber Security
dr. Marcel Spruit
Professor Cyber Security & Safety
dr. Mathias Björkqvist
dr. Nicole van Deursen
Emiel Kerpershoek
dr. ir. Pieter Burghouwt
dr. Susanne van ‘t Hoff – de Goede
dr. Rick van der Kleij
dr. ir. Marinus Maris
Asier Moneva Pardo
Raoul José Notté MA MSc
Deborah Oosting MSc
Marco Romagna LLM MA
Jim Schiks
Luuk Bekkers
Maaike Vergeer
Professor Cyber Security in the SME sector
dr. Rutger Leukfeldt
Rutger is the lector of the Cybersecurity in the SME sector at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and senior researcher of cybercrime and coordinator of the cybercrime cluster at The Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). He has more than 10 years of experience with scientific research into cybersecurity and cybercrime for both public and private clients. A few examples are research into the methods used and the characteristics of cyber criminals, into the victims of cybercrime among citizens and into the status of cybercrime cases in the criminal law system. Rutger earned his PhD with a study into the origin and growth processes, as well as criminal possibilities of cybercrime networks, and developed a model for the police and banks that can be used to more effectively combat cyber attacks. Rutger has also been the recipient of two prestigious research grants to conduct research into cybercrime. In 2015, he earned the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (EU subsidy for promising researchers) and, in 2017, a Veni Grant (Netherlands Initiative for Education Research subsidy for talented researchers). Finally, Rutger is chairman of the Cybercrime Working Group of the European Society of Criminology.
e.r.leukfeldt@hhs.nlSecretary Centre of Expertise Cyber Security
dr. Ligaya Butalid
Professor Cyber Security & Safety
dr. Marcel Spruit
Marcel Spruit boasts many years of experience in information and cyber security. He is responsible for research into cyber security and the development of education in this field and is personally and intensely involved in both the research and education development. Marcel is affiliated with the PBLQ consultancy firm as a senior consultant, where he provides advice on organisational aspects, especially the topics of information and cyber security. He also carries out audits, second opinions and security studies. Prior to his appointment as head of the research group, Marcel worked on quality assurance at Fokker Space and as a senior lecturer for the Information Systems department at the Delft University of Technology, where he specialised in information security, human failure and the organisation of security.
m.e.m.spruit@hhs.nldr. Mathias Björkqvist
dr. ir. Pieter Burghouwt
dr. Susanne van ‘t Hoff – de Goede
dr. Rick van der Kleij
Senior Researcher of Human Behavior and Organizational Innovations at TNO and Associate Professor of Cybersecurity in SMEs at THUAS
Rick van der Kleij is a psychologist with a PhD in occupational and organisational psychology, senior researcher in the research group and at the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). He has more than 20 years of experience in conducting high-quality applied research on socially relevant issues within the realm of security. His research on cybersecurity focuses on ways to make companies more resilient to cyber attacks. A resilient organisation has the capacity to respond adequately to cyber incidents and can also, in many cases, prevent problems from arising.
dr. ir. Marinus Maris
Asier Moneva Pardo
Raoul José Notté MA MSc
Deborah Oosting MSc
Marco Romagna LLM MA
Marco Romagna is lecturer in ‘Legal and criminological aspects of cyber security’ and researcher for the Centre of Expertise Cyber Security within the Faculty of IT & Design. He is external PhD candidate at Leiden University with a project on “Hacktivism: honorable cause and/or serious threat?”. Before joining the Centre, Marco was an intern at eCrime (Trento University), Cyber Security Academy (The Hague) and Eurojust and he worked as digital commerce fraud analyst at Nike. Marco holds an LLM in Laws (Trento University) and an MA in Global Criminology (Utrecht University). Beside hacktivism and cyber security, his main research interests focus on cybercrime, criminology and the related criminal law. Marco follows with particular attention new developments in technology especially when linked with legal challenges.
m.romagna@hhs.nl