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Patrick Coomans

Patrick Coomans

@intersection of cybersecurity & entrepreneurship at Tsundoku Ventures
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Bio Nowadays Patrick works for Sirris, Agoria, FPIM and KU Leuven to help digital product companies accelerate their growth and internationalization, with a special focus on Cybersecurity product companies. Patrick is a judge for MIT Innovators Under 35 Europe, a coach at Vlerick Business School, a mentor at IMEC iStart. Career History Patrick is a former cybersecurity technology entrepreneur. After having sold his company to Verizon in 2011, he held various EMEA and Global roles at Verizon, both in cybersecurity consulting and cybersecurity product marketing, as well as their Innovation Incubator. He helped launch a cybersecurity community at B-Hive, a fintech collective in Brussels, in 2017-2019 and introduced a trust label for fintech startups Trusted Fintech.

Blogs

 

Privacy and Cybersecurity are so boring, let's stop talking about it

25 Aug 2021

Aha, it seems I have your attention. But don't you agree? For most people, privacy and cybersecurity are just boring topics. Even scary, with all the fearmongering and hoodie-pictures being used to represent cybercrime. Customer centricity and outcome-driven messaging clearly hasn't reached the majority of the cybersecurity world yet. People aren't...

Fintech

Two Additional Ways to Improve API Security for Fintech startups

20 Dec 2017

It’s simple: the probability of being under cyber attack is 100%. From a Cyber Defense perspective, you have to be right all the time, at the contrary your adversary has to be right only once. Due to the nature of API’s, and their application in a financial context, the impact of exploiting a vulnerability could be huge. Imagine a flaw would let a...