Bio:
Mr. Peter Wallström is a senior advisor at the network security department of the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency, the agency in charge of regulating security in electronic communications. His recent tasks have been to develop the agency's crisis management system, heading the agency's participation in the bi-annual national electronic communications exercise, and managing the upcoming international conference "Resilient Electronic Communications - A Multistakeholder Challenge", in association with the Swedish Presidency of the EU. Prior to his current position, Mr. Wallström was the deputy head of the Swedish IT Incident Centre, the national computer emergency response team. Before joining the agency in 2002, Mr. Wallström was for three years with the consultancy-group Mandator, where he was addressing issues concerning IT-related national security on behalf of clients like the Ministry of Defence, the Armed Forces and the European Commission. Mr. Wallström has a background from the Swedish Defence Research Agency in projects analyzing national policies for information operations and critical infrastructure protection.
Actions to promote resilience and confidence in e-communication infrastructures
Abstract:
Nations and businesses are highly dependent on well functioning and resilient e-communications. The competition among e-communication operators is high and increasing as are the vulnerabilities. Not all compete with quality and resilience. We have learnt that there are needs to take complementary actions to asure robust and secure networks. Actions in place are e.g. policies, privat-public partnership projects, exercises, CERT co-op, monitoring and supervision/oversight of operators, awarenes raising among users. Lessons learned, especially in Sweden, will be discussed.