European Identity and Cloud Conference 2023

The European Identity and Cloud Conference is the place where the digital identity and cyber community comes together to set the course for the future of digitization. Come to Berlin or tune in online and get actionable insights for your digitization journey, build strategic partnerships for your business, and enjoy connecting with your colleagues and peers from all over the world.

Join the biggest international cybersecurity conference in Germany and meet 500 security practitioners. Participate in four interactive tracks to get insights on Quantum Computing, Supply Chain Security, Human Factor, Zero Trust, and many more. Explore societal, technological, and environmental megatrends.

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We are specialized in the strategic management of digital identities, privileges, authentication, and access control as well as cybersecurity and business resilience.

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Founder & CEO, BHOLD COMPANY BV

Paul Heiden

Paul Heiden (1967) is BHOLD Company’s founder and CEO. Paul started his career as an officer of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps specialized in mountain and arctic warfare. Having obtained a master degree in Dutch and Roman law, Paul became legal counsel at KPN, the Dutch Telecommunications company. When KPN went public, he frequently encountered the problem of controlling access to confidential M&A information. In this period he developed the ideas and models that would become the stepping stone for BHOLD Company in 1997. Ever since, Paul has worked to maintain a strict focus in BHOLD Company on authorization management from a business perspective. With this vision BHOLD Company gradually developed a leading position as vendor of business applications for authorization management and as a trusted provider of a unique expertise in implementing role based access control. Today BHOLD Company enables large organizations not only to manage and control access to information, but above all BHOLD enables management to deploy the use of ever more valuable information assets in order to meet its business goals.

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