Cybercampus Sweden Strives to Enhance the Security of Digital Systems
Sweden is exposed to an increasing number of cyberattacks. The new Cybercampus Sweden initiative aims to strengthen the country’s resilience by protecting society’s vulnerable digital systems.
“Part of our mission is to create a new, higher minimum level of cyber hygiene in society,” says David Olgart, director of Cybercampus Sweden.
After two years of preparation, Cybercampus Sweden can finally begin to officially operate at the end of the year, thanks to the government’s investment of more than 100 million Swedish crowns (about €8.6 million) in the coming years.
“Students are already working hard on ethical hacking to discover vulnerabilities in modern cars and other digital systems in computer labs at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and other universities,” David Olgart says.
The idea is that different societal functions will be able to turn to Cybercampus for help with problem solving.
“The challenges we can take on are beyond what individual organizations can handle. Our ambition is to create the conditions for built-in security in complex systems right from the start,” Olgart says.
According to the Cybersecurity Workforce Study, Europe faces a shortage of nearly 200,000 cybersecurity experts.
“This is why it is important to quickly start educating as many people as possible about cybersecurity. Among other things, we aim to produce easily accessible information material and short courses that are useful to people in Sweden here and now,” he says.