Managing Information Security is Managing Uncertainty

Martijn Dekker
9 min readMar 19, 2022

If we have learned anything during the last 2 years, during the pandemic, it is that life is uncertain.

The world around us is only predictable, or even understandable, to a certain limit. Beyond that, events are in many cases uncertain. And we have all seen how difficult it is to make decisions under uncertainty. Measures to contain the pandemic, were taken in one week…

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Martijn Dekker

Martijn has a PhD in pure mathematics, is top-executive, scientist and CISO with more than 25 years of experience pushing the limits of information security.