Sweden has always found themselves in a highly unsecure cyber threat landscape, to a point that the Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has listed cyberattacks among ‘eight main threats’ to the country. When looking at the statistics of cyber crime in Sweden which is the third largest country in Europe with the eighth highest per capita income in the world and a GDP of $457 billion, it has fluctuated between 11000 – 15000 crimes per 100000 of population for past 2 decades. What’s interesting though is the increase in the proportion of cyber crimes. And as it is with the case of any crime statistic, there are many more unreported cases. More so in this case, since companies and individuals don’t discover it until after they have compromised.
To have a strong, effective and vulnerability free security system, cyber professionals need to not only maintain regular intrusion and vulnerability assessments but make sure the application and system is constantly improved from the time it was being built. EC-Council, being the world’s largest certification body for information security skills, understand that not every information security team is skilled and equipped with the required knowledge and hence has created hands on, intensive, skills based cyber security certifications Sweden like online ethical hacking certification to eliminate the dearth of information security professionals.