The heading and featured image is ment to say something about the content of this post. The past year different reports have been initiated and delivered with great content, describing the current situation and also suggestions on what might be concerns, depending on the eyes that see I would argue. This aside I want to applaud the different initiatives as well ment and the reports by themselves but also in combination is at least for me very interesting reading.
The reports I am going to write a bit about concerns different risks and challenges that might in my opinion cause serious problems for the modern Norway.
The first report that everyone should take a look at can be found here (sorry Norwegian only) and is about digital vulnerabilities in a secure society. The theme is very important when more and more of the “modern” life goes digital or computerized as I call it. Reading through the report written by very skilled group of people one can not stop and wonder, why “nobody” don´t fix the long list of open in my view risks for critical “outages”.
The next report that looks at a slightly different matter but much the same baseline of information is in question. The audiens this time are the ones that need to see something, they feel they do not see with the current setup. For the ones that know me understand what I think about this but at the same time there are as always, technical solutions that can keep what this report (sorry Norwegian only) covers in a controlled state. I wonder why focus is not more in that direction more than how collected data can/will me misused.
The last report (sorry Norwegian only)i find very interesting in this context is about what has been going on between the different organizations trying to monitor and report on the first two reports to put it short. I know there is more to this but still reading the reports above shows that the alarm clock has been ringing and the snooze button has been widely used. The later report here points at solutions where there might be a solution to the today total lack of end to end responsibility.
We in Norway seem to be masters of setting up organizations that by them selves are not able to take care of all elements that are part of the value chain, but have to take into account that “maybe” someone else for sure fix their part.
How can we with the three sample reports I have listed in this post actually go to sleep at all?
The latest this week is this report from Riksrevisjonen even more concludes that the alarm clock need to delete the snooze “button”!
regards
bj