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Safety and Preparedness

The best preparedness is to be so well prepared that the incident never occurs.

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Safety, reliability, and robustness are essential to protect both people and society.

We conduct research on how to prevent, manage, and learn from unwanted events – whether related to cybersecurity, industrial safety, or societal safety. We always consider the interaction between technology, people, and organizational factors.

Our research includes

  • Artificial intelligence and security, including AI as a security challenge and AI as part of the solution.
  • Countering disinformation and influence operations.
  • Safety and reliability in industrial systems.
  • System safety for complex systems, ensuring that technology, organizations, and people function safely together.
  • Cybersecurity, including in critical infrastructure such as energy, transport, and health.
  • Software security, embedded security, and privacy.
  • Development of safety‑critical software, such as autonomous vehicles and medical devices.
  • Societal safety, safety management, emergency preparedness, and resilience, focusing on how different actors should collaborate to ensure a robust society.
  • Human and organizational factors, including how we design systems for human use and enable successful implementation of new technology.
  • Digital tools and platforms for cross-sector collaboration and decision support within safety and preparedness.
  • Organisational learning – how to learn from past experiences and develop new processes, services, and products in collaboration with other actors.
  • Research-based market access in domains with complex and extensive regulations and standards.
  • Digital security in autonomous technologies, for example drones in both air and sea environments.
  • Digital preparedness and sovereignty, including public cloud coordination and national cloud solutions.

We provide independent analyses and advisory services to companies and public-sector actors, and we develop solutions that strengthen preparedness, risk awareness, and resilience.

For companies, strong security is not just a responsibility – it is a competitive advantage. Together, we build safer systems, smarter preparedness, and a more resilient society. The best preparedness is to be so well prepared that the incident never occurs.

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