NightWatch 2025 - Recording

Major General Pieter Cobelens (ret.), former Director of the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service, examines how today’s geopolitical tensions and ongoing cyber warfare challenge our approaches to deterrence and resilience, and why strong leadership and data-driven strategies are essential for navigating uncertainty.

Petteri Korvala, Secretary General of the Security Committee in Finland, shares how Finland’s model for comprehensive security relies on collaboration between authorities, businesses, and citizens to safeguard vital societal functions. He highlights the importance of preparedness, strategic tasks, and mutual trust in building national resilience.

Ragnar Graham Heksem, Advanced Cyber Security Engineer at AkerBP, and Anne Wahlstrøm, Head of Cybersecurity Advisory Nordics & Functional Safety Unit at DNV Cyber, reveal practical lessons from AkerBP’s approach to identifying, assessing, and assuring cybersecurity barriers across technology, people, and processes in complex industrial environments.

Denise Anderson, President and CEO of Health-ISAC, looks at how digital transformation is reshaping the healthcare sector’s risk landscape, and why timely information sharing is key to making informed, risk-based decisions about physical and cyber threats.

Moderated by Rob Coveney, Growth Director at The Accelerator, DNV Cyber, with panellists Denise Anderson (Health-ISAC), Daan Brinkhuis (Z-Cert), and Dr. Hans-Martin von Stockhausen (Siemens Healthineers). The panel explores why healthcare’s cyber maturity lags behind other critical sectors and discusses practical levers for strengthening security posture amid digital transformation and resource constraints.

Helder Barbosa, Head of Cyber Resilience at E-Redes, dives into the April Iberian blackout, highlighting how crisis coordination, information sharing, and the spread of misinformation tested the resilience of critical infrastructure, and what must change to withstand future digital and physical disruptions.

Maarten Abbenhuis, COO and Executive Board member at TenneT, joins Remi Eriksen, CEO of DNV, to discuss how cybersecurity underpins Europe’s energy transition, the vision for a climate-neutral electricity grid, and the evolving risk management strategies needed as decentralised technologies reshape the power sector.