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— Vincent Meijer , CISO | Head of Information Security , Ordina

Meijer talks about holistic security enthusiastically , and calls his work ‘ security transformation ’. “ I don ’ t think security is a goal in itself ,” he says . “ It ’ s just a piece which needs to be there as a standard way of working . So it needs to be built in , and to build it in you need to look at it in a more holistic way – and look at where you can adjust it or apply it in your value stream process . If you do that , you can move and anticipate change really quickly because it ’ s just the way you work . But if you keep on addressing it as an add-on or an afterthought , that ’ s going to be really , really difficult .”

Why ? “ It was already difficult , but it ’ s going to be impossible to grow in this digital transformation everybody ’ s into . And the risks are growing .”

Meijer explains that new legislation passed in the Netherlands puts the duty of care on suppliers for security matters . It ’ s “ a big topic at the moment ” because although many suppliers wanted to put security at the heart of

JANUARY 2021