Launched: HSD Strategy 2026-2030

To determine how we can continue to contribute to a more secure (digital) world and a more resilient and economically stronger Netherlands, we have developed a new HSD multi-year strategy 2026-2030 in close collaboration with our partners and stakeholders. Aiming for a supported vision, clear roles, and the formulation of joint outcome goals & programme lines, emphasising our executive power. This renewed strategy aligns with emerging threats, societal needs and technological developments, ensuring that the Netherlands, South Holland and The Hague can continue to play a leading role in the (cyber) security field. The strategy will be launched during the annual meeting on 11 December.

Joris den Bruinen: "This renewed strategy will help us scale impact, foster collaboration, and prepare the ecosystem for emerging digital and societal security challenges. With our community at the center, we are ready to shape a safer and more secure future." 

Summary Strategy 

The goals of this strategy are aimed at providing solutions for societal (digital) security challenges, with a spin-off of strengthening the economy and digital resilience of the Netherlands. The world is shifting, and to tackle the new threats and seize opportunities, collaboration between public, private, and knowledge organisations remains key.

Therefore, together with over 300 triple helix partners, we will work on various programmes focused on the responsible use of new technologies for security, knowledge valorisation, and technology transfer to other sectors. Important topics are secure by design, digital autonomy, and dual/omni use. 

We will focus on three strategic pillars:

1. Strengthening Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in an Active Ecosystem

• Community management
• Knowledge circulation
• Access to funding, capital, talent, and (inter)national markets
• International positioning of the Dutch security ecosystem

2. Actively Leading and Executing Programmes

• Cyber Resilience
• Human Capital
• National Cyber Campus

3. Smart Secure Innovation Programming

• Smart Secure Cities
• Smart Justice & Security
• Smart Secure Grids & Energy Transition
• Smart Secure Defence & Resilience (dual-use innovation)

Stimulate Growth

We create fertile ground, so that 1) optimal use can be made of the available knowledge, 2) the government and end-users are helped with their (chain) challenges, 3) knowledge institutions can validate their knowledge, and 4) companies within the Dutch security cluster can flourish. Our focus is on knowledge circulation, endorsement, and delivering strategic added value for our premium partners. We achieve this through our “Access To” proposition in collaboration with many parties. 

Cyber Resilience & Talent Programmes

We are further expanding our Cyber Resilience and Talent Programmes. In the coming years, we want to grow into an important role in a national cyber resilience network. The non-critical but essential sectors and SMEs in the Netherlands are still too vulnerable in the area of cybersecurity. We believe that a sectoral approach can make a difference, with and for the sector, starting in the region and then scaling up nationally.

We also want to further expand our position of 'Security Talent expertise' nationally and internationally. Nationally, we are seen as the knowledge party in the field of security talent. New and concrete talent programmes will be linked to the cyber resilience centres and the broader regional and national ICT Human Capital Agendas (HCA). We are attracting additional subsidy funds for this purpose. In addition, we are expanding our position internationally. New international collaborations are being established with European and national funding. This will put the Netherlands more firmly on the international map in the field of talent and the labour market for (cyber) security.

National Cyber Campus

Our home base is the HSD Campus, and in the future, it will be the National Cyber Campus in The Hague. We are helping to set up and design the private-public part of this new National Cyber Campus, where, in addition to the NCSC, there will also be space for public-private collaboration, supported by HSD. 

Innovations

We accelerate innovations in triple helix consortia, based on the “secure by design principle”, which increases security in a digitising world, and that may lead to new Dutch economic revenue models. This allows new service and production combinations to emerge. Not only in the field of cybersecurity, but also for all kinds of technical products and systems with a digitally connected component.

These can then be deployed in powerful Dutch sectors such as defence & security, smart cities, smart grids & energy transition, horticulture, high-tech, and manufacturing. This delivers demonstrable economic value, enabling Dutch companies to make a difference worldwide. Within these programmes, the end user is decisive, and HSD acts as a facilitator. In doing so, we always focus, based on our strengths, on connecting, coordinating, and facilitating.

Read the new HSD multi-year strategy 2026-2030

Read the review report multi-year strategy 2021-2025