Webinar: The Cognitive Battlefield and Why Cybersecurity Is No Longer Just Technical
Cybersecurity is no longer just about protecting systems.
From deepfakes and synthetic media to coordinated disinformation campaigns, attackers are increasingly targeting perception, trust, and decision-making, not just infrastructure. These emerging threats are reshaping the enterprise risk landscape
But how real is this risk today? And how prepared are organizations to respond?
Join Orange Cyberdefense and Charl van der Walt for a thought-provoking discussion exploring whether disinformation and cognitive threats are becoming material business risks, and what organizations can do to address them.
Drawing on insights from the latest Security Navigator research, this session will examine how these threats manifest, why most organizations are not yet equipped to handle them, and what role cybersecurity providers can play in helping detect, assess, and respond.
What you will learn
- How disinformation and cognitive warfare are evolving — and why they matter for enterprises
- Why current security models are not designed to address these threats
- What can we consider an effective response to be?
- How psychological decisions, driven by disinformation, can affect global and local economies
Who should attend
- CISOs and security leaders
- Threat intelligence and SOC teams
- Risk, compliance and governance leaders
- Digital, communications and brand protection teams
Why attend
Gain early insight into one of the most important and least understood shifts in cybersecurity, and join the conversation shaping how organizations will defend trust and influence in the years ahead.
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Speakers:
Technical thought leader, spokesman and figurehead for Orange Cyberdefense world-wide, leading and managing the OC Security Research Center - a specialist security research unit within the group that helps us fulfill our mission of being a trusted partner to our customers by ensuring that we identify, track, analyze, communicate and act upon significant developments in the security landscape.
Responsible for using that intelligence and the other data, systems and human resources at the group's disposal to make a meaningful contribution of data and knowledge to the global security community.
The Security Research Center supports the OC mission by providing systems, data, intelligence and material that enable sound decision making by other group units driving growth, demonstrate our knowledge, experience and skill to all our internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring consistency between the messages we portray outwardly and the way our products and services are designed and delivered internally.
Mathias Caluwaerts is a disruptive IT Solution Architect who knows a variety of technologies and their applications.
While working on many technical projects during his 15 years of experience, he developed a taste for practicing IT from a business perspective. His technical expertise in High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity makes him an ideal incident response sparring partner.
Backed by a degree in Computer Science and Media, Franz is working hard to translate tech enthusiast content to something the average web reader can follow. That includes text processing, visualization and the design of websites, papers and visual support material, in close collaboration with the various research teams of Orange Cyberdefense. A key project he works on is the annual report of Orange Cyberdefense, Security Navigator.
- SVP of Content Strategy & CISO Advisor for KnowBe4 Africa, where she drives security awareness across the African continent. Founder of Popcorn Training (acquired by KnowBe4) and a PhD Candidate at Nelson Mandela University specializing in Cyber Psychology.
- Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cybersecurity, the Aspen Digital Global Cybersecurity Group and a founding board member of the MiDO Cyber Academy. Recognized as a Top 20 Global Cybersecurity Woman (2024, 2025) and winner of the Global Cybersecurity Women of the Year Award 2023. Certified cybersecurity professional (CISSP, CISA) and frequent industry speaker on the intersection of human behavior and security.
Jort Kollerie started in IT in 2000 and specialized in digital forensic and biometric solutions for the first few years. From 2012 he started working in the cybersecurity domain with a broad focus on technology and later on managed security services. Jort has been working at Orange Cyberdefense since 2019 and was responsible for, among other things. the team of ethical hackers & consultants and security architecture. Now he is a strategic advisor and works internally and externally with leadership teams to make the best choices to determine cybersecurity strategies for the future. He regularly speaks to journalists, speaks at events and participates in podcasts as a guest. With great enthusiasm and creativity, he explains the need for cybersecurity in a passionate but above all understandable way.