Author Joost Krapels
Joost Krapels has worked at ICT Institute from 2019 - oct 2024. He is a security and privacy officer with a lot of GDPR and ISO 27001 experience, and has Security+ and CISSP certification.
New OWASP Top Ten 2021
Every few years, the OWASP Top Ten, a popular list of ten important risks for web applications, is updated. At the moment of writing this article, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) version 2021 has just been released. In this article, we give a short explanation how the OWASP Top Ten works, and what…
Joost Krapels
Changes in CISSP: 2021 versus 2018
In April 2020, we wrote an article on the then current 2018 version of the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Body of Knowledge and provided a free study template. Technology evolves in a rapid pace, and with that the risks to an organisation’s information assets. The capabilities of and tools available to malicious actors…
Joost Krapels
How to improve your internet.nl score
Internet.nl is a service, co-created by the Dutch Government, for measuring the security of your website. The tool summarises many security aspects into two simple scores: one for websites and one for email. We use the service quite a lot, both for ICT Institute and our clients. Each score is between 0% and 100%. If…
Joost Krapels
Free CISSP 2018 body of knowledge study template
The Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) certification is a way for security engineers, managers, executives, and consultants to show they have a firm grasp of the technical and organizational aspects of Information Security. The official study guide provided by (ISC)², the organization behind CISSP, contains 948 pages of study material divided over eight domains….
Joost Krapels
Cookies: the yes, the no, and the maybe
They are impossible to escape these days: cookies. Sometimes accompanied by a impenetrable cookie wall, a large banner, a small information bar, or nothing at all. Cookies allow certain website features, traffic analysis, and marketing. What is and is not allowed is not always clear, which many websites use to their advantage. In this article…
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