by Jesper Kråkhede, Sweden
Posted in Business, Security Architecture on Aug 26th, 2020
A simple question for management after five months of working from home: Where is your company´s most sensitive information right now? Before March you probably thought you knew. It was on the file servers, in the business systems and maybe on a few laptops. Since then your staff have been downloading, sharing and printing from […]
Posted in Security Architecture, Technology on Jun 19th, 2020
It looks like many of us will split our time between home and office for quite a while. Some days in the office, most days at home. That creates a few technical challenges that I see over and over again. The first is the device. A laptop that spends weeks outside the office doesn´t get […]
Posted in Business, Security Architecture on Mar 25th, 2020
In a few days a large part of Sweden has moved home. Management teams all over the country are working on keeping the business running, and rightly so. But in the rush I see a lot of security decisions being made without anybody noticing that they are security decisions. ‘Let people use their own computers.’ […]
Posted in Security Architecture, Technology on Mar 19th, 2020
This week the Swedish Public Health Agency recommended everyone in the Stockholm area who can to work from home. Many other countries have gone much further and closed down completely. Overnight the VPN went from a tool for travelling sales people to being the main entrance to the company. That makes the VPN gateway one […]
Posted in Security Architecture on Jan 31st, 2020
A slightly different post this time. For a few weeks I have followed the news about the new coronavirus from Wuhan in China. At first it sounded far away. Now the city is closed down, the virus has turned up in several other countries and yesterday WHO declared it a public health emergency of international […]
Posted in Business, Security Architecture on Jul 28th, 2019
Here is a little exercise for you. Imagine that tomorrow morning nobody can come into the office. Not for a day, but for weeks. It doesn´t really matter why. A fire, a flooded basement, a strike in the public transport or something else entirely. Everybody has to work from home. How does your security look […]