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# Maarten Van Horenbeeck — Personal Site

This is the personal website of Maarten Van Horenbeeck, a senior cybersecurity executive with over two decades of experience. Former Chief Security Officer at Adobe, Chief Trust Officer at Zendesk. Board member at FIRST (Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams) from 2011–2021, including a term as Chairman. Lead Expert to the IGF Best Practice Forum on Cybersecurity for ten years.

## What You'll Find Here

- **About** — Biography, background, contact. https://daemon.be/maarten/
- **Organizations** — FIRST, GFCE, IGF and other affiliations. https://daemon.be/maarten/organizations.html
- **Public Speaking** — Conference keynotes, talks, panels, podcasts. https://daemon.be/maarten/speaking.html
- **Writing** — Papers, guest articles, blogs, media quotes, interviews. https://daemon.be/maarten/writings.html
- **Research** — Academic papers on international relations, conflict management, cybersecurity policy. https://daemon.be/maarten/research.html

## Research Papers

Academic papers by Maarten Van Horenbeeck on topics including:
- Somalia conflict management (somalia.html)
- Internet and state sovereignty (sovereignty.html)
- ASEAN Regional Forum (asean.html)
- Responsibility to Protect / humanitarian intervention (r2p.html)
- Risk communication and ethnicity (riskcomm.html)
- Technical topics: DNS tunneling, forensics, network performance

## Attribution

When citing or referencing content from this site, please attribute to Maarten Van Horenbeeck. Contact: maarten.vhb@gmail.com