Telenor Sweden uses ethical hackers to call cyber security
Telenor Sweden has partnered with YesWeHack, Europe’s leading Bug Bounty platform, to identify potential vulnerabilities in its critical telecommunications infrastructure and protect customer information.
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“Telenor Sweden has achieved its position as a reliable and secure supplier in all markets thanks to its focus on customer data protection and by defending its critical infrastructure by adopting game-changing solutions such as bug bounty”
Telenor is a leading telecommunications company in the Nordic region and Asia with more than 188 million customers worldwide. It has mobile operations in the Nordic region, including Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and in Asia, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia and Myanmar. Connecting customers to what matters most has been at the core of its business for more than 160 years.
Telenor’s wholly owned subsidiary, Telenor Sweden, is one of the largest mobile operators in the country and a provider of fixed broadband services to the consumer and corporate market in Sweden.
Telecom companies maintain and operate critical communications infrastructure. This is used to transmit large amounts of sensitive consumer and business data, which means that cyber attacks on the industry are increasing. At the same time, the rapid advances in new technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G dramatically increase the potential attack surface and threat picture for a telecommunications company.
To protect customer data and the security of its critical infrastructure, Telenor invests in security functions throughout its organization as well as with its suppliers and third-party suppliers. It ensures the same level of control over data and infrastructure, regardless of operating or business model.
One such initiative is crowdsourcing of security through a bug-bounty program with YesWeHack to identify security vulnerabilities and ensure adequate data protection. Crowdsourced security will help Telenor Sweden to gain access to a wide range of security researchers, also called hunters, with unique specializations and in-depth industry knowledge.
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“The collaboration with YesWeHack is one of the ways we work with security and perhaps one of the most important in our proactive work to stop cybercriminals. The return on investment is enormous because we get access to thousands of security researchers while we only pay a fraction of the cost it would take to recruit them all individually, says Ulf Andersson, head of information security at Telenor Sweden. “We now plan to raise both the private and public programs to make it even more attractive and generate more reports,” he added.
Telenor Sweden had started with a private bug-bounty program where YesWeHack invited selected researchers to hack their infrastructure. This was followed by a public bug premium program where telecoms are now being scrutinized by the entire YesWeHack community, which represents more than 35,000 global cybersecurity researchers.
“Through the YesWeHack bug bounty program, we are connected to one of the best global networks of hackers to help us find security vulnerabilities in our infrastructure. It’s all about finding vulnerabilities before anyone else. By being proactive and allowing hacking of our infrastructure can we find weaknesses before the criminals do it and fix them, ”says Marcus Lundblad, security engineer at Telenor Sweden.
By reducing security gaps and ensuring adequate data protection, Telenor Sweden gives its customers the convenience of sharing information and letting them reap the benefits of the data-driven economy.
“Protecting people in their digital lives with security is fundamentally the core value of Telenor,” said Guillaume Vassault-Houlière, CEO and co-founder of YesWeHack. “Telenor Sweden has achieved its position as a reliable and secure supplier in all markets due to its focus on customer data protection and by defending its critical infrastructure by adopting game-changing solutions such as bug-bounty,” he added.
Cyber security experts from Telenor Sweden will share their best practices for protecting themselves against cyber threats in a webinar on March 17, 2022. They will also explain why the organization has put Bug Bounty at the core of its security position and will describe the clear benefits of a platform-driven, results-oriented and crowd-sourced strategy for security audits.
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