Why a Proactive Security Approach is Linked to a Constant Cyber Transformation and what are the Benefits for Companies?

Thomas Veynachter, CEO of Neotrust and formerly a cloud and product lead at one of the world's 20 largest banks, walks through a security transformation he led over roughly four years, structured as three phases in a SAFe-based agile methodology. Phase one, about 18 months, built a private cloud with security-by-design baked into every feature through a tiered compliance framework, starting with authentication and secrets management. Phase two scaled the approach from a founding team of about 20 to the bank's full 120-person security organization by launching a dedicated agile release train, watching predictability climb from roughly 10% to 80% across iterations, and turning project managers into SAFe-style 'epic owners.' Phase three matured the work into six independently versioned, API-consumable security products covering incident detection, vulnerability management, secrets, identity and access, data protection and network security, extended to on-premises assets and smaller group entities. He argues the real payoff was not just delivery speed but rebuilt trust, transparency and cross-team pride. Q&A covers keeping remote project managers engaged and adapting the methodology for smaller companies.