About

Martijn Dekker is Professor by Special Appointment in Information Security at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on information security governance, decision making under uncertainty, security automation and the application of information theory to cybersecurity.

In addition to his academic role, he serves as senior executive and Chief Information Security Officer at ABN AMRO Bank, with more than 25 years of experience shaping cybersecurity strategy. He is also member of the advisory council of Dutch Statistics (CBS).

He is programme director of the Cybersecurity Leadership Academy at Amsterdam Business School. He is lecturer at Erasmus Governance Institute in the Masterclass Audit Committee and the new board programme at Nyenrode Business University and he regularly delivers keynote lectures and professional training on cybersecurity leadership.

In 2022 he was recognized among the Global CISO 100 most influential security leaders worldwide, and received this distinction again in 2023 (top 100) and 2025 (top 50). He is nominated for 2026 again.

Research Interests

• Cybersecurity governance
• Decision making under uncertainty
• Security automation
• Information theory applied to cybersecurity

Publications & Contributions

Peer-reviewed & Scientific

• "Uncertainty in security: managing cyber senescence", Inaugural lecture, University of Amsterdam, 2025
• "Towards an AI-Enhanced Cyber Threat Intelligence Processing Pipeline", Electronics, 2024, 13, 2021, DOI
• "Navigating the EU data governance labyrinth", Internet Policy Review, 2024, 13(1), DOI
• "A threat-intelligence driven methodology to incorporate uncertainty in cyber risk analysis", Security and Privacy, 2024, 7(1):e333
• "A corporate governance approach to cybersecurity risk disclosure", European Journal of Risk Regulation, 2022, 13(3):443-463
• "Capturing Chromosome Conformation", Science, 2002, 295(5558):1306-11
• "Moduli spaces of stable sheaves on abelian surfaces", PhD Thesis, University of Amsterdam, 1997

Professional Publications

• 2026
  • Chapter "Digitale veiligheid in de context van internationale betrekkingen", in Handboek Digitale Veiligheid, to appear
  • Chapter "detectie in cybersecurity", Handboek Digitale Veiligheid, to appear
  • "The leadership of cyber resilience: from controls to choices", Journal of Financial Services #2, 2026, p. 66-73.
• 2025
  • "The useful strength of (cyber) regulation", Medium.com, Jul 24, 2025
  • "Security en Innovatie: geen tegenspraak, maar noodzaak!", iB Magazine #3, 2025
  • The future of cybersecurity: insights from Martijn Dekker, dCypher, Mar 4, 2025
• 2024
  • "Wat betekent de groeiende kracht van AI voor cybersecurity?", Beste-id.nl / NRC, Dec 28, 2024
  • "Collaborative Deception Fleet", PCSI whitepaper
  • "Winning the cyber endgame requires removal of the ultimate vulnerability", Medium.com
  • "Emerging tech, emerging threats", foreword to book by Tiago Teles & Arnoud Wiehe
  • "AI hyperbole: Complexity and Destruction", Medium.com
• 2023
  • "A Note on Cyber Insurance", Medium.com
  • "The Geometry of Multi-Party Risk", Medium.com
  • "Human-competitive AI will disrupt cybersecurity", PCSI
  • "Quantum technologie: impact verzekerd", De Actuaris, 2023
  • "The CISOs guide for implementing DevSecOps", Book, 2023
  • "Managing the uncertainties of cybersecurity", Journal of Financial Transformation, #57, 2023
  • "The 10 most influential CISOs", CIO Views, 2023

Videos / Podcasts

• Inaugural lecture at University of Amsterdam, Nov 28, 2025
• Heliview Talks 2022 Interview
• Digitale veiligheid: 4 experts nemen stelling
• PCSI Cybertalk Session #1: AI Misuse
• Vlog: Copying our body’s immune system
• Uncertainty and Risk in Information Security
• Cyberhelden – Interview
• IBM 2021 EMEA Security Summit Highlights

Contributions

• "ASML geeft zijn leveranciers bijles over het weren van hackers", Financieel Daglad, 2021
• "ABN AMRO kiest voor zelf-helende security in Kubernetes", Computable, 2021
• "Ensuring online security in a quantum future", Boston Consultancy Group, 2021

PhD Students

• Kunter Orpak – co-supervisor
• Edouard van den Heuvel – thesis defense May 2025
• Eugenie Coche – Information security-privacy-ownership nexus, 2020-2025, Co-supervisor

Master Students

• Avanya Aggarwal – Master thesis (2026)
• Bart-Jan de Wit – "The (mis)use of ChatGPT for criminal use", 2023
• David Palma – "Effect of Cybersecurity Awareness Training Performance on Insider Threat Risk", 2021
• Narendra Parigi – "Cyber security - fraudulent events detection based on user behavior.", 2020