Currently on my mind

What do you get when you mix competence, creativity and business sense together with a big portion of deep engagement and people who really cares? You get Edge Academy, an intimate yearly IT festival during a week happening in all Netlight offices all over Europe. By us consultants, for us consultants. Sounds interesting, one must really say, but what’s the agenda or theme? Of course whatever is currently relevant, or Edge as we call it within Netlight. That is whatever makes challenges or opportunities to our clients and our clients as being leaders and drivers of the digital future. What this may be in detail, all of our consultants know together (that’s why the agenda can’t be set by anyone else) so let’s have a peak into the schedule of what is currently Edge to us. Also this is as good answer as any to the question - what does Netlight actually do currently?  What we do in six months or in a year? Nobody knows, and that's the excitement, ask us then and we'l...

At last it's the week of Edge Academy* again.  On my mind after first night of Netlight Edge Academy 2016 in Stockholm is – “The Evolution of Malware” presented by Hannes Sandahl @Netlight with the following agenda and discussion… “ It’s been about 30 years since the first PC virus, Brain A, hit the net. What was once an annoyance has become an advanced tool for crime and espionage. We will talk about how malware has evolved and the future of it. ” Ohhh, another awakening smack in the face. The evolution of Internet of things will besides creating a very interesting digital future really open up the malicious crime business widely. You can't easily hide behind your firewall anymore. Some of the main worries I see here are typically The drivers or producers of Internet Of Things often comes from a non-IT background, leaving IT security left behind. The typical consumer, you and me, know a computer can be affected of malicious intrusion, but don’t see the smar...