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Focus on NATO in the Data Council

Data Council Security and safety

Niklas Alm is Head of Strategy and Deputy Secretary General at SOFF, the Swedish Security and Defense Companies. Last week he visited TechSverige's Data Council to talk about NATO and what membership will mean.

- It's complex stuff but itt seems that they found it interesting anyway. NATO is very difficult to describe in a short time but you can draw some conclusions. I usually say that it's a bit like comparing certain legislative proposals where you have to try to understand how it can affect me. Then you can act as a company or as an individual and understand that "OK, maybe this is something I need to understand."

What will NATO membership mean for the tech industry? - It can mean a lot and a little depending on what kind of individual or company you are, but in general it means that the whole society has to build resilience. If you look at the resilience of digitalization to a number of issues, from the perspective you will find a number of aspects that affect the companies, the capabilities, the knowledge or the technology and then NATO makes a number of demands on it from their perspective. To put it simply, if you are familiar with the requirements that Swedish defense places on companies, capabilities, or knowledge, you will also be able to apply it to NATO, even if it may mean that the requirements increase.
When describing the situation, what is the biggest challenge as a strategy manager?
- NATO is an incredibly complex structure and organization. It is a political organization that aims to organize a number of different parts from a capability perspective to protect its members. That is actually incredibly difficult to break down without looking at individual parts, but it affects everyone to a very large extent.
 What advice do you have for TechSverige and our member companies on how we should work on this issue?
- To work as we do in the Security Defence Companies and look at their own business to apply it to digitization, technology and development issues. Then you have to think about what it means, but above all it is about working with the actors in Sweden, the so-called sector authorities or others, who take government responsibility for the issues.