MAINPAGE / ÅSA KIDMAN
Keynote
14.45 - 15.15
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Security is a team sport
Åsa kidman, Customer Security Officer
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Åsa Kidman
Customer Security Officer
Keynote speaker Åsa Kidman, CSO at Microsoft, speaks of cybersecurity as a team sport, and on facing the challenging shift from awareness to accountability. She explores what tools and knowledge we must provide our employees, customers and citizens with to encourage them to move from the sideline onto the field.

Hi Åsa Kidman, CSO at Microsoft. Few things are moving faster than the cyber security threat landscape. In what ways does that require us to change?

– Traditionally we designed and implemented a security solution and expected it to get the job done. But given how fast the threats are evolving we need an updated strategy, where we stay in continuous contact with our security partners and make security everyone in the organization’s top priority. 

You refer to cyber security as team sport. When did that happen?

– Cybersecurity has always been a team sport, but now we need to collaborate even more closely than before. Durung challenging times, when we were all working around the clock, it is very clear that we are in this together.

From your perspective, what is the most important insight journey that we have in front of us?

– We need to move from awareness to accountability. All of us need to understand that no one can opt out from taking responsibility according to their ability. We can’t afford to be naïve and shouldn’t expect someone else to pick up the bill if we act carelessly. An important part of this shift is to give people the know-how they need to make good decisions and act responsibly.

How do you work with this shift towards accountability at Microsoft?

–  If you work at Microsoft, you work with security. No matter what your role is in our organization you must prioritize security and think security first in everything you do.

What technology that we take for granted today would have amazed you the most at age 15?

– Having all the world’s information available to you at all times would have blown me away. I lived in the US for a few years when I was young, and I would have been completely amazed if I could have seen what happened in Sweden. I love my phone, and the Bing search engine is my go to app for all my knowledge needs.

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