Cybersec Europe Bruxelles 2026

The real challenges defining european cybersecurity in 2026

Two days of conversations about european cybersecurity

Expertware took part in Cybersec Europe 2026, held on May 20–21 at Brussels Expo, one of Europe’s leading cybersecurity gatherings, bringing together CISOs, security architects, policymakers, researchers, and technology providers.

Tiberiu Baraboi and Lucian Vizeteu, CEOs & Co-Founders of Expertware, were present throughout both days of the event, engaging in technical discussions with exhibitors and professionals working in SOC operations, threat detection engineering, AppSec, and critical infrastructure protection.

Cybersec Europe 2026 brought into focus the real challenges organizations are facing today: growing alert volumes, hybrid infrastructures, and threats evolving faster than traditional response capabilities.

One of the main keynote sessions was built around real ethical hacking cases from the Belgian series Hacked. The examples showed how security breaches often start from small, overlooked vulnerabilities and how important the human factor still is in cybersecurity incidents.

The event also emphasized the growing operational impact cyberattacks have on critical infrastructure, supply chains, and the day-to-day operations of organizations.

Another recurring topic was the need for security strategies tailored to each organization. Instead of one-size-fits-all approaches, conversations focused on solutions designed around operational context, infrastructure complexity, and the specific risk profile of each company.

When data alone is no longer enough

One of the key conclusions of the event was that organizations already manage large volumes of security data, while the real challenge lies in rapidly correlating alerts, identifying relevant context, and prioritizing incidents that require immediate response.

In this context, Expertware presented SIEMBIOT — our advanced SIEM/SOAR platform, expanded with new capabilities developed based on the operational experience gained through SOC activities carried out over the past year.

The platform integrates advanced mechanisms for collecting, normalizing, and correlating events coming from multiple sources: endpoints, network equipment, applications, cloud infrastructures, and industrial systems, alongside Cyber Threat Intelligence functionalities for alert contextualization and improved detection capabilities.

By integrating SOAR components and automation mechanisms, SIEMBIOT contributes to reducing incident response times (MTTR) and improving SOC operational efficiency.

SIEMBIOT, developed in partnership with DNSC and co-funded by the European Union,

goes beyond addressing compliance requirements. It responds to the real need for centralized visibility and rapid correlation in environments where organizations manage large volumes of data coming from different infrastructures, applications, and systems that are difficult to interpret separately.

The same need for visibility and rapid response was reflected in the application security space, where vulnerabilities often reach production environments before they are identified through traditional verification processes.

Pragma Core, the continuous AppSec platform developed by Expertware and ZeroDay, addresses a challenge many organizations still postpone: treating application security as something checked between sprint cycles rather than integrated directly into the development workflow. Its continuous offensive security capabilities, permanent code-level validation, and AI-powered remediation guidance are designed for teams that cannot afford to slow down delivery cycles for separate security reviews.

The research activity surrounding the platform has already contributed to the disclosure of more than 10 CVEs.

Cognyte – a trusted partner for Dark Web Intelligence

Cognyte is a global leader in investigative analytics software that empowers a variety of government and other organizations with Actionable Intelligence for a Safer World™.

Cybersec Europe also provided an opportunity to strengthen the partnership between Expertware and Cognyte in the area of dark web intelligence. Discussions focused on deeper integration of dark web monitoring capabilities into SIEMBIOT operational workflows, extending internal visibility with signals coming from outside the perimeter: compromised credentials, exfiltrated data, and activity across anonymous networks.

Hundreds of customers in approximately 100 countries rely on Cognyte’s solutions to accelerate and conduct investigations and derive insights, with which they identify, neutralize and tackle threats to national security and address different forms of criminal and terror activities.

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