Modern CISO Network: Board Book

Frank Baalbergen is currently the CISO at Mendix, a Siemens business, where he drives the company’s security and compliance vision and strategy. His unique blend of leadership, technical expertise, and commitment ensures that Mendix offers secure, efficient, and compliant solutions for its customers. He leads a team of more than 30 professionals focused on product security, security assurance, procurement, product classification, and quality.

Frank’s dedication and security expertise extends beyond strategy; under Frank’s leadership, Mendix has attained crucial cloud security and privacy certifications, along with compliance to FedRAMP (a program that promotes the adoption of secure cloud services across the federal government) and healthcare regulations like HIPAA.

In addition to his role as Mendix, Frank is the external Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Linq Group, where he serves as the technical counterpart to the company’s CEO and defined their technical strategy and roadmap, demonstrating his versatility and keen business acumen. As a former CTO and current shareholder at Equidam, he designed and implemented an online platform that helps customers discover their company value using mathematical algorithms.

He has also successfully advised and helped senior management teams overcome a variety of security challenges. These include navigating an open-source license issue, recovering from a crypto locker (ransomware) attack, and determining the risk associated with source code analysis before making significant company acquisitions.

Frank is a co-author of the information security book Niet van iedereen and has been recognized in the Hall of Fame at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He has made significant open-source contributions to projects such as Keepalived, reinforcing his commitment to the cybersecurity and IT community at large. His certifications include CISSP-ISSMP, CCSP, and CSSLP.