Oracle Blogs

Machiel Bolhuis from the Oracle External Standards and Community Engagement team is based in the Netherlands and responsible for standards engagements in Europe. He participates in several working groups of the European Standards Organisations: the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN), the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC), the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), and has a close relationship with the European Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). Machiel also looks at the harmonisation of European and globally recognized standards, as IT products and services in general are most efficiently provided for a worldwide market. Machiel is the editor and project leader of the EU standard that sets cybersecurity requirements for the EUCS. The standard contains requirements regarding access control, business continuity, and risk management that are aligned with national and international standards. An interview with Machiel about his role as editor and project leader is available on the Dutch Standardisation Body NEN website.