New Opportunities for Cybersecurity Founders: EU Regulation, AI & Growth

Webinar about how new European regulation and AI-driven change are creating fresh opportunities for early-stage cybersecurity ventures.

### Cybersecurity is no longer optional as regulation, new technology, and the way we build and connect products are all forcing it to the center of how businesses operate. For those who want to build in this space, the timing has never been better.

CyberOps Network joins SIBB for an open conversation about where the real opportunities are right now. We look at what NIS2 and the Cyber Resilience Act mean for product builders, how IoT, AI, and post-quantum cryptography are opening up new areas nobody has fully solved yet, and what the next wave of cybersecurity products will need to address.
If you work in or around cybersecurity and have ever thought about building something, this session maps out where the market is heading.

#### 💡 What you will learn:

• IoT security: You will understand why connected devices represent one of the largest unsolved security problems in the market right now and why that matters for anyone thinking about where to build.
• NIS2 and the Cyber Resilience Act: You will leave knowing which EU regulations are creating immediate buying demand and which sectors are most exposed, so you can see where the commercial opportunity actually sits.
• AI and cybersecurity: You will understand specifically where AI is creating new vulnerabilities that existing products cannot handle and why that gap is still wide open.

#### 🧑‍🏫 Speaker

Brett Ortgiesen - Co-founder and Strategic advisor at CyberOps Network

• Co-founder and Strategic advisor at CyberOps Network, a CREST-certified penetration testing company with over 2,000 security assessments completed
• Based in Berlin, working across the European cybersecurity market with clients and partners in Germany, Romania, the Netherlands, and beyond.
• Former SIBB incubator mentor, helping early-stage founders translate technical expertise into a working business model.
• Actively building partnerships and applying for EU co-funding to bring professional security testing to SMEs across Europe through the CYSSDE program.
• Experienced in B2B sales, go-to-market strategy, and building commercial operations in the cybersecurity space from the ground up.

#### 🎯 Who should attend:

• People with a technical or research background in cybersecurity who are considering building a product or starting a company.
• Engineers, developers, or researchers working in sectors touched by NIS2, so energy, healthcare, transport, finance, and digital infrastructure who see the security gap in their field and want to do something about it.
• Students or academics in computer science, engineering, or information security who are thinking about what comes after their studies.
• Anyone already working in cybersecurity who wants to understand where the market is heading and whether there is a business to be built in the spaces we will discuss.