The Hacked Entrepreneur | Cybersecurity
Xander Koppelmans has been a successful entrepreneur in the communications sector for 25 years when his own company is unexpectedly hacked. He does not tell a technical story, but personally addresses your own vulnerabilities.
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What does a cyber attack do to your company, your team, your relationships, and to you as an entrepreneur, including the consequential damage? Xander Koppelmans has experienced it all, and both the outcomes and his way of presenting are quite surprising. Without hesitation, everyone becomes painfully aware of their own vulnerabilities and feels an urgent need to take action immediately. Fortunately, there is also much to laugh about because we are here for our enjoyment too, right?
Xander Koppelmans has been a successful entrepreneur in the communications sector for 25 years when his own company is unexpectedly hacked. Despite his company being well-organized and secured, the damage turns out to be significant. He decides to share his story with other entrepreneurs to warn them about this great danger that we do not all fully comprehend yet.
Thus, he has unintentionally become a bit of “the personification of the hacked entrepreneur” and is often invited to give impactful lectures for both SMEs, large corporations, and governments due to his unique (inside) knowledge, openness, and presentation style.
Xander does not tell a technical story, but personally addresses your own vulnerabilities. From the CEO to the moderator and the lady in the cloakroom, everyone gets their turn, and afterwards, everyone immediately changes their passwords.
Cybersecurity is not just an IT department issue, but a team effort of the entire organization.
He speaks as entrepreneurs among themselves about what a cyber attack actually does to your company, your team, your customers, and to you as a person. A moving presentation where there is also a lot of laughter and where everyone learns a great deal. Passwords, behavior, and knowledge are tested among the attendees during the lecture and are found to be vulnerable in most cases. Fortunately, he also immediately explains how to keep all that trouble at bay.
After the hack, Xander shifted his focus from communication to digitally healthy entrepreneurship. He developed from a victim and expert by experience to ultimately a specialist and is the founder of MKB Cybertraining.nl and the podcast channel MKBCybertalk.nl. You can ask him anything; he will tell you everything.
Cybercrime is a multi-headed monster that is rapidly growing. Learn to understand how they operate and thus learn what you should and should not do to keep all forms of cybercrime out of your organisation. These are tasks for the management, the team, and a little bit of IT but above all, awareness among everyone.
We hear all sorts about cybercrime but what does this actually mean for your sector? Is cybercrime for the hospitality industry the same as for the shipping or transport sector? Together we will discuss (along the lines of what happened to Xander) other cyberattacks on companies in your sector elsewhere on the worldwide web and what damage they caused there. Is it manageable or is it worse than expected?
I’m too small, I’m not rich, I have an Apple, we have a guy for that. These are frequently heard excuses for doing nothing, and hackers are immensely grateful for this because it makes it very easy for them.
There is no hacker in China or Korea who cares who or what you are or how you spell your name. If you give them the chance, you will automatically be next.
By the way, is that hacker pretending to be a friend in need the same person trying to destroy your backups?
We know what our companies turn over per day. How long are we down after an attack,
how do we restart, how shocked or affected are our customers, how is our
staff doing, and how long does it take to leave this misery behind us? We will calculate the actual damage on the spot together.
On the normal highway, we have traffic rules, a driving licence, periodic inspections, and yes, also brakes and airbags to reach our destination safely with reasonable certainty. On the digital highway, it is not much different, but we do not follow the rules because we do not know them. Well, how do you expect to travel safely then? Xander explains the rules, making the internet as safe as travelling to the event itself.
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