Overview
Nick Maeckelberghe is a co-founder of Crimson7, a role he has held since September 2024. He is based in Gent. He also co-founded Vigne Vicine in July 2024 and founded MANI in November 2023, and remains involved in both.
From June 2022 to June 2024 he was vice president for cyber risk at Kroll. Before that he spent five years at Arrow Electronics, joining in July 2017 as a solutions architect for Arrow Services, then serving as business unit manager for security and services from March 2019 and as EMEA services growth lead from May 2021 until June 2022. He had joined Centralpoint in January 2016 as technical account manager for BeLux and held the position of enterprise solutions architect for BeLux from September 2016. Earlier, he worked in sales at Telenet from November 2012 to December 2015.
He studied marketing and sales management at Syntra Brussel, Tour & Taxi's, from 2014 to 2016, took a management skills programme at Management Centre Europe in 2019 and completed the Advanced Leadership Program at Primeast in 2020.
Career history
In the news
- Ever wondered how we fit into AEV and CTEM? A question we are getting more frequently from our clients and partners. Check the post below or the article here: https://lnkd.in/edBesyHt
- The quarterly board report says the controls are in place. It rarely says when anyone last watched a detection fire. "We have a detection for credential theft" and "we proved last month that our credential-theft detection fires" sit in the same row of the same slide. Only the second one is evidence. Rules break quietly. A log source stops sending, or a threshold gets tuned for noise and never tuned back, and nothing alerts, because the alert is the part that broke. Our co-founder Nick Maeckelberghe wrote up five questions a CISO or
- We’re at MSP Show Netherlands tomorrow at Jaarbeurs Utrecht. At 13:00, our co-founder Nick Maeckelberghe and Customer Advisory Board Lead Jeff Schiemann take the MSP Theatre stage for: Turning Threat Intelligence into Action: How MSPs Can Stay Ahead of Attackers They’ll share a practical framework for turning threat intelligence into continuous purple teaming, detection and response as code, and threat hunting. See you in Utrecht. Event details and registration: https://mspshownl.com/ #MSPNL
- Threat intelligence earns its place when it changes what defenders do next. Nick Maeckelberghe and Jeff Schiemann joined this panel at teissLondon2026 to discuss how high-confidence context can reduce false positives and drive active threat hunting. This was not a product session. But the problem sits at the centre of what we build at Crimson7. 7Hunter helps SOC teams turn threat intelligence into structured, repeatable hunts, with the queries, investigation context and runbooks needed to act. HackerFlow takes that same
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