SCHIPHOL-RIJK, Netherlands, September 28, 2026 — Schuberg Philis today announced that it has joined Prometheus, a new public-private initiative bringing together twelve leading Dutch organizations to accelerate innovation at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
Operating under the Digital Holland umbrella, Prometheus aims to establish a collective, market-neutral, and sovereign cyber capability that uses AI to identify, validate, and remediate vulnerabilities in widely used software and digital supply chains—before attackers can exploit them.
Today, the participating organizations presented the manifesto “Staying Ahead of the Threat, Together” to Willemijn Aerdts, State Secretary for Digital Economy and Sovereignty. The manifesto calls on Dutch businesses, public institutions, technology providers, and knowledge organizations to join forces in developing a digital defense capable of evolving at the same speed and scale as AI-driven cyber threats.
Schuberg Philis is participating alongside TNO, ESET, AISLE, Hadrian, SIG, Northwave, DIVD, NS, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV), and VUSec at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Why this matters to Schuberg Philis
Schuberg Philis plans, builds, and operates mission-critical IT environments for organizations whose systems must remain secure and available at all times. These environments increasingly depend on complex ecosystems of software, cloud platforms, technology partners, and suppliers. As a result, their resilience is determined not only by the security of an individual organization, but by the strength of the entire digital supply chain.
The emergence of autonomous AI changes that risk equation. AI-driven attack systems can operate continuously, test vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed, adapt their methods, and scale attacks with limited human intervention. Traditional defense models, which often rely on sequential processes and manual analysis, will not be able to keep pace on their own.
For Schuberg Philis, joining Prometheus is therefore a natural extension of its responsibility for mission-critical IT. Protecting the systems on which businesses and society depend requires organizations to share expertise, learn from real-world use cases, and jointly develop defensive capabilities that can operate at machine speed.
“Mission-critical security cannot stop at the boundary of a single organization. Our customers operate in deeply interconnected digital ecosystems, which means that a vulnerability anywhere in the supply chain can affect the continuity of an entire sector,” said [NAME], [TITLE] at Schuberg Philis. “By joining Prometheus, we can combine operational experience, engineering expertise, and knowledge from across the public and private sectors. This is how we turn AI from an accelerating threat into a powerful part of our collective defense.”
From shared urgency to practical action
Prometheus will begin with a joint pilot focused on AI-driven software security. Participating organizations will first identify the capabilities users need, determine which solutions are already available in the market, and establish where genuine gaps remain. New capabilities will be developed collectively only where collaboration provides clear additional value.
Organizations from industry, government, and other sectors will contribute practical use cases and testing environments. Cybersecurity companies, technology partners, and research institutions will develop and test the required defensive capabilities. Solutions that prove effective will be implemented and scaled.
Schuberg Philis will contribute its experience in designing, securing, and operating complex mission-critical environments. Its involvement will help ensure that the capabilities developed by Prometheus can move beyond experimentation and be applied safely and effectively in real operational settings.
The initiative is based on a number of principles that closely align with the way Schuberg Philis approaches mission-critical security:
- Security must be built into systems and software from the outset, rather than added afterward.
- Effective cyber resilience requires responsibility across the entire digital supply chain.
- Defensive innovation must be continuously tested against real operational needs.
- Collaboration is essential when the speed and scale of the threat exceed the capabilities of any single organization.
- Strategic digital capabilities should strengthen Dutch and European technological sovereignty.
Strengthening the entire digital ecosystem
Prometheus will initially focus on essential and important sectors, where disruption can have far-reaching consequences for society. Its ambition, however, extends to the broader economy, including small and medium-sized businesses that often lack the resources to develop advanced AI-driven security capabilities independently.
The twelve founding participants have committed to contributing knowledge, technology, infrastructure, data, people, and practical use cases. Just as importantly, they have committed to putting proven solutions into practice. This approach is intended to prevent promising innovations from remaining isolated experiments and instead turn them into shared defensive capabilities that can be deployed across sectors.
Prometheus also supports the wider European ambition to increase digital resilience and sovereignty. Capabilities developed and proven in the Netherlands could ultimately contribute to a stronger collective cyber defense across Europe.
“Security is a shared responsibility, particularly when society depends on the systems being protected,” added [LAST NAME]. “Prometheus gives us the opportunity to learn faster, act earlier, and help make advanced defensive capabilities available to organizations that could not build them alone. For Schuberg Philis, participating means helping protect not only our customers, but the wider digital ecosystem in which they operate.”
About Prometheus
Prometheus is a public-private initiative operating under the Digital Holland umbrella. It brings together leading organizations from industry, government, cybersecurity, and academia to accelerate collective cyber resilience in the age of AI.
Its ambition is to create market-neutral and sovereign capabilities that use AI to identify, validate, and remediate vulnerabilities in software and digital supply chains faster than attackers can exploit them. The manifesto “Staying Ahead of the Threat, Together,” presented on September 25, 2026, calls on organizations throughout the Netherlands to join this collective effort.
