Schibsted after the attack: We have to get better – Swedish Dagbladet

photo: Henrik Montgomery / TT

Media companies slated from several directions after Saturday’s denial, among other things, to not have been better prepared.

One who believes that the media should have handled the attack better the government’s media researcher Anette Novak.

“at no time can the citizens of Sweden overshadowed in the media, or at least blocked from opportunities to take part in a wide range of independent media, “she writes on the media commission’s website on Monday.

Politicians have also spoken out and look seriously at what happened, and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) intend to start an investigation into the Swedish media vulnerability to sharp national crisis.

the media company Schibsted Sweden, where among other Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet and Aftonbladet part, welcomed the commitment. But Malin Backlund, CIO of the media company, does not agree to IT management on Saturday was a failure.

– Sure it would have been good if we had survived the attack and were able to extinguish it quickly. But one can never be one hundred percent sure, although we have high IT security.

Where you prepared for this kind of attack?

– The attack was hard directed against Aftonbladet and you have not previously seen many of these massive attacks in the world. But it is clear that I wish we had been more prepared and this shows that we need to be even better.

How will you be there?

– We need to increase readiness, even if it is already good. Then you have to learn from what happened and continue working on safety. While we media must cooperate more with the government and authorities.

Schibsted has talked about creating your own digital ecosystem of sites Aftonbladet, block, SvD and so on, to be able to compete against nätjättar as Facebook and Google. Sites like also become vulnerable to attack.

Why manage these and not Schibsted?

– It is difficult to compare, and depends on what attacks you are with. Since we have different business formats and different conditions, so it can not compare outright.

So it has to do with money?

– No, not to protect themselves cost more in the long run, said Backlund.

We do not know who was behind the attack or what the purpose was. But we are investigating it now.

Schibsted has not yet been any theories about who or what might be behind the attack, and so far like the media company did not say whether it would have been halted.

– We do not know who was behind the attack or what the purpose was. But we are investigating it now, so I can not say in detail what had been done and not. But we need to tighten security further, and is now working full force to investigate the incident, says Malin Backlund, CIO of Schibsted.

Swedish Dagbladet was also affected by Saturday’s denial, and will now to tighten security.

– This weekend’s extensive cyber attack is very serious from various perspectives. It means that we have further tightened our ongoing safety. It is a top priority for us, says Svenska Dagbladet’s CEO Gunilla Asker in a statement.