Rate My Professor Michel van Eeten

Michel van Eeten is a Professor of Governance of Cybersecurity in the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology. He holds a PhD in Public Management from Delft University of Technology and an MPA in Public Administration from Leiden University. His research focuses on the governance of cybersecurity, investigating the interplay between technological design and economic incentives in Internet security. His team analyzes large-scale Internet measurement and incident data to assess how markets for Internet services manage security risks. Core topics encompass botnet mitigation, threat intelligence and abuse reporting, network measurements, information sharing, security metrics, and cybercrime markets. These empirical studies have been funded by NWO, the ITU, the OECD, the US Department of Homeland Security, the European Commission, the Dutch National Police, the General Intelligence and Security Service, Fox-IT, banks, and various Dutch government ministries.

Van Eeten served as a member of the Cyber Security Council, the Dutch government's official advisory body on cybersecurity, from 2011 to 2023. He has advised the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, the ITU, and the OECD on management, security, and reliability of critical infrastructure. Key publications include the NDSS 2019 Distinguished Paper Award-winning "Cleaning Up the Internet of Evil Things: Real-World Evidence on ISP and Consumer Efforts to Remove Mirai" (2019); "Deployment of Source Address Validation by Network Operators: A Randomized Control Trial" (2022); "Helping Hands: Measuring the Impact of a Large Threat Intelligence Sharing Community" (2022); "No One Drinks From the Firehose: How Organizations Filter and Prioritize Vulnerability Information" (2023); and "To Trust or to Restrict? Mapping Professional Perspectives on Intelligence Powers and Oversight in the Netherlands Using Q-Methodology" (2023). His contributions have shaped cybersecurity policy and academic discourse on market dynamics and governance.