Within the Dutch Digitalization Strategy (NDS), digital resilience is a prerequisite for continuity. Yet, in practice, progress is often stalled by something that is not a technology problem, but an organizational one: silos. Security belongs to the CISO, IT belongs to IT, and continuity belongs to someone else entirely—and it is precisely in the gaps between them that major risks arise.
Anita Wehmann, Program Manager for Digital Resilience and Digital Autonomy at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, observes this daily in her work: organizations that outsource responsibilities by outsourcing technology, yet lack a clear understanding of what is truly critical for their own survival.
Would you like to contribute your thoughts on how digital resilience can become a shared responsibility within organizations? Then we cordially invite you to participate in this private roundtable discussion.
Those responsible for Cyber Security, Business Continuity, and IT within the government and critical sectors
CPE Points | 2 points
17:30 | Start of program (including presentation, discussion and 3-course dinner)
20:30 | End of formal program, opportunity for informal networking
Language: English
Creative Valley Papendorp, Utrecht
Program Manager Digital Resilience and Digital Autonomy
Anita Wehmann is Program Manager for Digital Resilience and Digital Autonomy at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK). With forty years of experience within the government—thirty of which were spent in executive agencies—she has held various roles at the intersection of integrated security, privacy, quality, and cybersecurity.
Within BZK, she works on strengthening the digital resilience of the government based on the Dutch Digitalisation Strategy (NDS), with cybersecurity as a core component. Her focus lies on the administrative and organizational aspects of digital security: how do you ensure that continuity, security, and autonomy do not become fragmented, but instead remain anchored throughout the entire organization? Additionally, Anita Wehmann is co-chair of a European working group in the field of post-quantum cryptography.
Within the Dutch Digitalization Strategy (NDS), digital resilience is a prerequisite for continuity. Yet, in practice, progress is often stalled by something that is not a technology problem, but an organizational one: silos. Security belongs to the CISO, IT belongs to IT, and continuity belongs to someone else entirely—and it is precisely in the gaps between them that major risks arise.
Anita Wehmann, Program Manager for Digital Resilience and Digital Autonomy at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK), sees this daily in her work: organizations that outsource responsibilities by outsourcing technology, but lack a clear understanding of what is truly critical for their own survival. Her starting point is that digital resilience does not begin with tools, but with insight into which processes are truly business-critical, which IT assets support them, where dependencies lie (both internally and with suppliers), and who the administrative owner is.
During a roundtable discussion on May 28, we will engage with a select group of professionals from government and critical infrastructure to discuss questions such as:
Would you like to contribute your thoughts on how digital resilience can become a shared responsibility within organizations? Then we cordially invite you to participate in this private roundtable discussion.
