Our Mission

Venation is on a mission to deliver the most compelling digital risk management experience possible businesses worldwide. Empowering professionals to make smarter decisions about digital risk management, dramatically reducing time spent identifying, prioritizing, and responding to risk(s).

Leadership

Gert-Jan Bruggink, Founder & CEO

After building and leading threat intelligence teams at Fortune 500 companies, Gert-Jan founded Venation to bridge the gap between threat information and practical defense implementation. His experience spans 15+ years in cybersecurity leadership roles.

We're Different By Design

• Practitioners First: Our team has managed real security operations, not just advised from the sidelines
• Co-Creation Model: We develop scenarios with active security professionals from industry to ensure practical relevance
• Implementation Focus: Every scenario includes step-by-step guides that security teams can deploy immediately
• Global Perspective: Our virtual-first team spans multiple continents, providing 24/7 threat monitoring

What Drives Us

• Turning Knowledge Into Action
• Making Security Implementation Simple
• Providing Measurable Defense Results
• Building Community Around Practical Security

From Frustration to Solution

• Gert-Jan experiences firsthand how traditional threat intelligence fails security teams in crisis
• 2021: Venation officially founded in Eindhoven, Netherlands
• 2022: Initial concept developed to transform threat reports into implementation scenarios
• 2023: First major enterprise clients adopt the scenario-based approach
• 2024: Platform expansion, including implementation guides and GitHub integration
• 2025: Global team growth and launch of managed services offering