Connect2Trust has been founded to share relevant cyber intelligence with its participating organizations, as well as their connected cybersecurity ecosystems, and develop joint capabilities to increase the cyber resilience of their organizations, their supply chains, region and within or across their sector in the field of cyber security.In 2015 Kai Schut started the Connect2iSecurity community as one of the connect2 communities. connect2 are communities where people from various fields share knowledge and experience, with the aim of raising the level and further professionalizing our organizations and ourselves.In 2018 this initiative was formalized in the Connect2Trust Foundation and in 2021 it received the OKTT status by the NCSC.