Marcel Claassen

Marcel Claassen

Principal Sales Engineer

Boxtel, The Netherlands

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Marcel is a cybersecurity specialist with deep expertise in threat detection and over 25 years of experience in IT and security. Outside of his professional work, he is passionate about home automation and enjoys building creative, hands-on solutions. He has also delivered presentations on home automation, sharing his practical experience and insights. This includes a resourceful Kubernetes environment running on Raspberry Pi devices and repurposed laptops, used to power a range of innovative automation projects.

Eyes on Runtime: Security with Falco

Learn how Falco helps detect suspicious runtime activity across containers, Kubernetes, and cloud workloads, and how tools like Sidekick, Talon, and Preempt extend that detection into alerting and automated response. This session explores how to build a practical runtime security workflow that goes from real-time detection to actionable remediation.

Unlocking Cloud-Native Threat Detection with Falco

This hands-on workshop introduces participants to real-world cloud-native threat detection using Falco, the CNCF’s open-source runtime security project. Attendees will learn how Falco monitors system, container, and Kubernetes activity to uncover anomalous or malicious behavior in real time. Through guided exercises, they will configure rules, explore alerts, and gain practical skills to strengthen runtime security in modern Kubernetes environments.

Scrap Start, Smart Finish

Subtitle: My Second-Hand Smart Home Story
Prepare to be inspired on his extraordinary adventure from scrap to smart home automation. Driven by curiosity and sprinkled with IT-savvy humor, it reveals how to creatively transform second-hand appliances into a harmonious ecosystem. With the 'Marktplaats app' at your fingertips and the power of Kubernetes, orchestrate a remarkable fusion—melding dumb devices into a seamlessly operating digital machine. In this era of circular innovation, this proves that discarded technology can be reused as treasures at the very edge of automation.

Rise of the machines

The session explores how agentic AI is reshaping the cybersecurity landscape by accelerating both offensive and defensive capabilities. It highlights how threat actors now use autonomous AI systems to scale attacks, adapt in real time, and reduce the expertise needed to carry out sophisticated operations. At the same time, it shows how defenders are deploying their own AI agents for autonomous detection, rapid decision-making, and automated response, turning security into an evolving battle of AI-driven systems.

BSides Groningen 2026 Sessionize Event

April 2026 Groningen, The Netherlands

Marcel Claassen

Principal Sales Engineer

Boxtel, The Netherlands

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