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Geert Eggens

Geert Eggens

Program Manager at Highberg

About Geert

Geert is a driven and versatile program manager at the intersection of organization, processes, and ICT, with a focus on cybersecurity, risk management, and compliance. His goal is to ensure things get done, embed them in the organization, and continuously improve.

With over 25 years of experience in both the public and private sectors, Geert has expertise in implementing laws, regulations, and frameworks for information security and privacy (ISO 27001/27002, BIO, CSIR, NIS2, DORA, NIST, GDPR), auditing, and improving the maturity of information security and privacy in organizations.

Key activities include implementing the continuous improvement cycle (information security management system), organizational setup, governance, and establishing roles and responsibilities within organizations (based on the 3-levels model), often as part of digital transformations.

Geert is a results-oriented team player who works alongside people to achieve lasting outcomes by rolling up his sleeves. His drive is to strengthen organizations, teams, and employees. He ensures that things become clear and achievable for the organization, taking into account the risks and often conflicting interests at play. Geert makes the necessary changes concrete and manageable. Additionally, he helps organizations, together with a team of colleagues, function as an independent and critical conscience on complex ICT projects.

Want to know more? Connect with Geert on LinkedIn.

Department & Services:
Digital, Data and AI

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4 min read
February 2, 2024
Risk management as a success factor in digital transformations

Digital transformations involve changes in technology, business models and organizational practices. They are often complex and require speed due to changing market conditions and technological advances. Digital transformations therefore often bring new risks in addition to new opportunities. These need to be carefully managed. A balanced risk approach can be applied as a success factor in digital transformations, balanced with the innovations or competitive advantages being pursued.
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6 min read
January 8, 2024
How do you make an agile transformation succeed?

Organizations have high hopes for their agile transformation. Yet after the initial successes, many organizations often find that their agile transformation gets stuck. The enthusiasm among employees, management and customers disappears. Improvement stalls or things even get worse. Experience shows what often goes wrong and how to prevent it.
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3 min read
December 5, 2023
Agile working and privacy go hand in hand

Since the introduction of the GDPR, privacy has never been so prominent. The GDPR requires by law that privacy has been considered in advance when realizing new services, processes and systems. This is called “Privacy by Design” (hereinafter PbD). Agile working, such as scrum, is delivered per sprint of 2-4 weeks, with a focus on rapid implementation of new functions. Privacy is often still regarded as a side issue or final element. I also repeatedly hear talk about the “privacy ballast” that would hinder Agile working and would also be contradictory to Agile principles . With this blog I want to emphasize that “Privacy by Design” fits perfectly into Agile working and that the two even reinforce each other.
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