They could win the Safety of the Year Award

Today, the finalists for the 'Security Award of the Year' are presented in Tech Awards Sweden, an award and industry event organized by TechSverige and Foundry. Three entries have made it to the finals this year. The nominees are; Cybersecurity Academy (Young Researchers and IBM), Recorded Future and Safe as Digital Today (The Swedish Internet Foundation in collaboration with SeniorNet, Digidel, the Police and others).

This year's Security Prize is awarded to the company, organization, initiative or individual in the tech industry, or in their field, that has contributed to promoting security and trust linked to digital development.

Richard Oehme, Senior Advisor, Knowit Cybersecurity & Law has been part of this year's jury:

The winning entry will be presented at Tech Awards Sweden on March 22 at Sergel Hub in Stockholm.

Cybersecurity Academy (Young Scientists and IBM)
The Cybersecurity Academy (CSA) is an initiative that spreads knowledge about online security among young people, and arouses curiosity and interest in technology and IT. CSA is a joint initiative of Young Scientists and IBM, with support from MSB. Many teachers find it difficult to raise cybersecurity in their teaching. With CSA, all teachers, regardless of IT knowledge, can work with cybersecurity in the classroom. In collaboration with companies in the IT industry, CSA offers the school lectures with IT experts, as well as teaching materials all the way through primary and secondary school. Students learn about digital trails, strong passwords, hacker attacks, online source criticism and much more. The support is free of charge for schools and is linked to the curriculum.To strengthen IT security as an extracurricular interest, CSA has also launched Sweden's first cybersecurity holiday school, where participants for the third year in a row can learn about encryption, programming and cyber defense.

Recorded Future
Recorded Future was founded in 2009 by Staffan Truvé and Christopher Ahlberg from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, who patented an algorithm for advanced web analytics, based on machine learning and natural languages. Their service predicts and defends against online threats by scanning and automatically analyzing large amounts of unstructured information in all the nooks and crannies of the web.

The company provides internet-scale intelligence data for more than 40 countries' national defences, businesses and organizations that want to preserve a free, democratic world. In a digital world, all types of cyberattacks leave digital traces, but also digital traces from the physical acts of war like now in Ukraine. These traces are picked up, structured and analyzed by Recorded Future's machines and methods.

Recorded Future has built a digital twin of the world, from the core of network traffic, to code, to all the content we all publish every day, and after 13 years, they are the world's largest intelligence company with a turnover of 2.5 billion. The company has taken a clear stance on the war in Ukraine from day one, lending all its technology to their defense for free. The company has Swedish founders, 150 people stationed in Gothenburg and the rest (over 750 people) around the world. 

Safe as digital today(The Swedish Internet Foundation in collaboration with SeniorNet, Digidel, the Police and others)
Almost all Swedes use the internet every day. We use it to contact authorities, pay bills, socialize with loved ones, or search for information and news. But one in five pensioners do not use the internet at all, and there is widespread concern about being scammed by fraudsters across the population. In addition, many experience difficulties in determining whether information online is true or false. So Sweden in 2023 is a country where the internet offers great opportunities, but where anxiety and ignorance about how digital works are real barriers.

During the theme day Digitalidag, the Swedish Internet Foundation organized a half-day event for older people on both the benefits of using the internet and how to do it safely. The event, which was broadcast on Youtube, had more than 7000 viewers digitally and received a rating of 4.6 out of 5. In addition, the event was shown in over 40 libraries around Sweden. All lectures from the event are published individually on Youtube and can be used freely by associations and individuals. In collaboration with a number of different actors, we ensure that the knowledge from the event still reaches those who need it.

All partners of The Swedish Internet Foundation: SeniorNet Sweden, Digidel, Digiteket, PRO, Police, Kivra, Apoteket and the MIK Sweden network. 

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Beatrice Silow, Head of Communications and Culture, Nexer Group
Haval van Drumpt, CEO, Tre Sweden
Joakim Djurberg, journalist, Computer Sweden / Foundry
Per Schlingmann, Entrepreneur, Author, Speaker
Arash Sangari, Program Manager Startup Sweden, Tillväxtverket
Ulrika Lindstrand, President of the Swedish Association of Engineers
Anna Eriksson, Director General, DIGG - Swedish Agency for Digital Government
Lena Miranda, CEO Linköping Science Park
Richard Oehme, Senior Advisor, KnowitCybersecurity & Law
Mattias Höjer, Professor of Environmental Strategic Analysis and Futures Studies, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Johanna Giorgi, Chief Sustainability Officer, Addsecure.
Åsa Zetterberg, Director, TechSverige (chair of the jury)