Experience
Secure connectivity becomes difficult when networks, security, cloud, suppliers and internal teams all depend on each other. Q7 brings experience from environments where those boundaries have to work in practice.
Start with an assessmentSituations we know
The difficult part is rarely one technology. It is making networks, security, cloud, suppliers and internal teams work together as the environment keeps changing.
Multi-site connectivity
Locations, users, Internet access and cloud services depend on reliable connectivity across different providers, technologies and contracts.
SD-WAN and SASE
Implementation and program experience with secure connectivity architectures, including SD-WAN and SASE in distributed organizations.
Multiple suppliers
Telcos, security vendors, service providers and internal IT each own part of the environment, while incidents and changes cross those boundaries.
Managed service models
Operational models around connectivity, monitoring, service management, supplier coordination, escalation and customer support.
Regulated environments
Organizations where security, operational control, documentation and evidence need to remain manageable alongside day-to-day IT operations.
Changing security boundaries
Cloud, SaaS and AI use continue to change where company data goes and how users access it. Connectivity, identity, security policy and supplier responsibilities increasingly need to work together.
What that experience means for your environment
Technology is only part of the problem. In practice, many connectivity and security issues are also questions of ownership, implementation and operational responsibility.
See where ownership breaks down
Understand which issues belong to technology, which belong to suppliers and where responsibility currently falls back to your own team.
Change what needs changing
Separate genuine weaknesses from technology and suppliers that can remain in place, rather than assuming the complete environment needs replacing.
Think beyond go-live
Include monitoring, escalation, supplier coordination, reporting and operational ownership in the design rather than dealing with them afterwards.
Experience with organizations including
Selected examples from assignments and environments where Q7 team members have worked.
Where this is most relevant
Experience matters most when it resembles the environment you are dealing with.
Multiple sites or distributed users.
Several connectivity or security suppliers.
Hybrid cloud and on-premise environments.
Manufacturing and industrial operations.
Life sciences and compliance-sensitive organizations.
Limited internal network or security capacity.
Founders
Michael ten Broeke and Robert Jan van der Horst combine technical implementation experience with enterprise IT leadership and governance.
Michael ten Broeke
Infrastructure, cybersecurity and implementation
Michael has a technical background in applied physics and computer science and experience across infrastructure, cybersecurity, enterprise systems and complex IT implementation.
His work has included implementation consulting, IT management and project management in environments where technology, suppliers and operational requirements needed to come together.
Robert Jan van der Horst
IT leadership, governance and enterprise delivery
Robert Jan brings CIO-level and senior IT leadership experience across infrastructure, cybersecurity, governance and international technology programs.
His work has included global IT, security, ERP and infrastructure programs where business priorities, suppliers and technology delivery had to remain aligned.
Start with the environment you already have
You do not need to decide on a new network, supplier or managed service first.
The Secure Connectivity Control Assessment gives you a structured view of the current environment, where ownership or complexity is creating problems, and what should be addressed first.
Explore the assessment