Technology Magazine January 2021 | Page 227

ZERO TRUST : NO HERO ?
security arrangements are struggling in managing and maintaining all their security controls and it almost becomes a goal on itself . “ Hopefully a lot of people are going to take a little step back instead of rushing forward ,” says Meijer . “ A better goal should be to make it simpler instead of adding more complexity to it . So we help companies to remove complexity and make their security arrangements more effective and better to manage in order to become more resilient .
ZERO TRUST : NO HERO ?
“ I keep hearing about a ‘ zero trust ’ philosophy during Covid conditions , and this is where you don ’ t trust anything and therefore might think you have to check everything . Using this

EXECUTIVE PROFILE : Vincent Meijer

227 Title : CISO | Head of Information Security Industry : Information Technology & Services
With more than 20 years of experience in IT , Business and Security , Vincent has worked on many challenging cyber security projects for appealing organisations both national and internationally .
The last decade he has been focusing more on understanding and learning about organisational business models and their processes in order to integrate security within the value stream instead of using the traditional afterwards compliance-driven approach .
In addition to his assignment to integrate cyber security within the business strategy as Group CISO for Ordina Benelux , Vincent also fulfills the role of business director for Ordina ’ s Cybersecurity & Compliance services . technologymagazine . com