Dirk Hoke

President & CEO, Chairman of the Voith Group Board of Management, Voith Voith

Search every verified Dirk Hoke interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. At the 2019 Munich Cyber Security Conference, Dirk Hoke, then CEO of Airbus Defence and Space, discussed the evolution of cybersecurity attitudes in industry. He recalled that nine years earlier, executives at large companies were reluctant to adopt cloud services or invest heavily in cybersecurity, citing a lack of major incidents. Hoke noted that the landscape has since changed rapidly due to technological, societal, and industrial shifts, and that industries are now recognizing their vulnerability. Hoke emphasized the importance of ensuring that data generated is the same as data consumed, pointing to examples such as artificially altered videos and audio. He stated that if the financial system, infrastructure, governments, and industry are not safe, it will be difficult to stabilize the way forward, and that cybersecurity will be a crucial part of that effort. He called for closer cooperation between industry and government to create a "push-pull system" for threat analysis and counter-protection, describing current communication between companies and countries as "really slow."