Security Creating Trust and Competitiveness
The security environment is complex and unpredictable. Challenges and opportunities are also being created by technological change and the integration of the digital and physical world. In addition to anticipation and risk prevention, it is becoming increasingly important to identify threats and incidents, manage their effects, and recover from them.
Aalto EE has provided security and safety management programs for over 30 years. Our alumni network consists of more than 600 security experts and executives. Our programs are highly regarded by recruiters in the sector. We also produce security information as part of our program. We work together with the entire security sector, to ensure the quality and impact of our operations.
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Timo Seppälä
D. Sc (Industrial Economics) Timo Seppälä serves as a University Lecturer in Operations Management at Aalto University.
Seppälä’s research focuses on global value chains, supply chain management, digital operations, and platform economy in technology and service-based businesses.
He acts as a trainer and expert in programs in the areas of operations management, supply chain management, and digitalization. His research has been published in international journals such as the Journal of Operations Management, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Industry and Innovation, and California Management Review.
He has over 20 years of business experience from various Finnish and international companies, including Metso, OMG Kokkola Chemicals, Oracle, Elcoteq, and lately, Koja Group, where he serves as Chairman of the Board.
Valtteri Vuorisalo
Dr. Valtteri Vuorisalo works as Head of Trusted Society for Fujitsu and as a research fellow at King’s College London.
In his work Vuorisalo has studied and focused especially on security of data and information flows, national security, and ICT transformation. Currently his role focuses on enabling trustworthy solutions and technologies for public organisations.
Risto Sarvas
Risto Sarvas is a Professor of Practice and Head of the Information Networks program at Aalto University.
He has a colorful history overlapping design, business, technology, and society. The common denominator between these three roles is his endless enthusiasm to figure out how technology and society are intertwined: as a culture, in politics, in business, as well as in everyday life.
His research, teaching, and service design work have received several awards and much popularity.
Risto Sarvas holds a doctorate in Media Technology from the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University).
Teemu Malmi
Teemu Malmi is a Professor of Accounting and Head of the Department of Accounting at Aalto University School of Business. Also, he has previously been the Chairman of the Board at Aalto University Executive Education Ltd. and Sannäs Manor Ltd.
Professor Malmi specializes in management systems, strategy implementation, and cost and profitability accounting. He teaches frequently in a variety of Executive Programs and has served as an advisor to a large number of companies from various different industries: IT, electronics, energy, finance, food, health care, media, metal and engineering, paper and pulp, pharmaceuticals, rental services, retail, telecom and transportation/logistics and the public sector.
Teemu Malmi holds a Ph.D. in Accounting and Finance from The Helsinki School of Economics, which was merged into Aalto University in 2010.
Peter Sund
Peter Sund is the CEO of Kyberala. He has extensive experience in security both in Finland and internationally, having worked in various positions in both business and non-profit organizations.
In his work, Sund has specialised in national security, security regulation, risk management, and information security issues. He has also studied cybersecurity governance, regulation, and policies. Peter Sund has a broad educational background including business management, information technology, la,w and behavioural sciences.
Lilly Korpiola
BBA, MA, PhD candidate Lilly Korpiola is an author, key note speaker, media strategist, leadership and communications expert and coach.
Lilly’s expertise is in the leadership and communications. Her passion is to empower people with her inspiring style of speaking and to help them to gain new and fresh perspective from strategy to everyday life. She is praised for her ability to integrate the latest research into practical leadership.
Currently, after Covid pandemic and crisis in Ukraine, she is training organizations in strategic and leadership communications in relations to resilience and psychological security. Among her clients are Ministry for Foreign Affairs, The Finnish Parliament, The Finnish Police Force and Ministry of Social Affairs and Health besides various private and public companies.
She has a broad international educational background from business administration and organizational psychology to communication studies. Her current academic work is in the field of media society, leadership, and strategic and crisis communications.
Lilly has written six non-fiction books based on academic studies (Arab spring 2012 nominated as the best Finnish non-fiction with the Tieto Finlandia award). Her latest book is about resilience and the next will be about leadership in times of crisis and societal changes.
Samuli Järvinen
Samuli Järvinen, M.Sc., is the General Counsel and Chairman of the Board of NUUH Oy, whose main areas of expertise are legal services and services related to data acquisition, analysis, and cognitive security of individuals.
In his career, Järvinen has been an entrepreneur, teacher, military officer, consultant, and professional leader in ICT business and cybersecurity in national and international business environments. In the military, he has gained experience in instructor roles in Finland and in expert and leadership roles at the tactical operational level in various crisis management environments. Järvinen has been training key personnel in interaction psychology, focusing on cognitive influencing, for 15 years, while empirically researching the subject. Järvinen's cognitive influencing content and methods are used in different settings in Finland and around the world.
Järvinen holds a Master's degree in Education. In addition to her work, Järvinen is preparing a doctoral thesis for the National Defence University and works as a writer and researcher in various contexts related to cognitive warfare. Järvinen's dissertation research investigates intentional cognitive influencing of a targeted and profiled target person in face-to-face situations with the help of a trust relationship under the title Building Trust as Part of Human Intelligence Collection Process.
Jari Ylitalo
Jari Ylitalo, PhD, is a University Lecturer in Leadership at Aalto University School of Science and Aalto Ventures Program.
He teaches, in particular, master's students on leadership, teamwork, and self-management.
Ylitalo's pedagogical approach emphasises a dialogical and resource-oriented approach. He also works as a supervisor, coach, and workplace facilitator. He has a long and diverse experience in coaching and developing leaders, management teams, and organisations in both corporate and public organisations.
Ylitalo's research has focused on leadership and leadership development, with a particular emphasis on the effectiveness of guidance, resource-centred and dialogue-based development approaches. He has also studied the social dynamics and development of cooperation and partnerships between companies and organisations, as well as network management and the development of a network approach.
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Security is a shared task
Security creates trust and competitiveness in individual organizations and society as a whole. The security environment is characterized by complexity and the unpredictability of events. Challenges and opportunities are also being created by technological change and the integration of the digital and physical world. Changes in the security environment are challenging organizations and their management to transform themselves.
Comprehensive competence building and holistic operational management are needed to achieve a level of security that breeds competitiveness. Meeting the challenges involved in foresight, on the other hand, requires acute situational awareness, improved resilience, and the ability to recover rapidly when threats and risks are realized.
When building trust and competitiveness in the current security environment, you need to recognize the importance of the security culture and communications, as well as emotions and experiences. Security is a shared task between a single organization, business networks, and society. In addition to anticipation and risk prevention, it is becoming increasingly important to identify threats and incidents, manage their effects, and recover from them.
An overall view of the operational environment is a prerequisite
Successful security and risk management requires a comprehensive understanding of the operational environment and its various aspects: organizations must understand what key issues they need to attend to, and with what measures. They must also recognize the statutory requirements set for certain functions, which are central to the areas of data protection, occupational safety, and environmental safety in particular. Each organization must identify the most fitting approach to security and risk management for itself and its operational environment.
Situational awareness must be continuously updated
Building trust and ensuring continuity in a rapidly changing, complex environment form the core of security and risk management. The ability to act and recover when risks are realized, and to learn from incidents, is also essential. This requires continuous updating of situational awareness and the enhancement of resilience.
Security and risk management increasingly involve procedures and an approach that enables action, rather than a function that limits action and generates costs. Such actions are closely bound up with ethics: what is considered responsible and acceptable action.
Security management supports an organization's strategy
The key objective of security management is to guarantee the operational reliability and trustworthiness of an organization, including during emergencies. Systematic security and risk management supports an organization’s strategy, improves its productivity and competitiveness, and becomes a natural part of its operations.
A chief security officer (CSO) must have a holistic grasp of statutory and voluntary security measures, where the management of people and issues is combined. He or she must have a command of both statutory and organizational requirements for operations, as well as the human perspective. A CSO must also be able to function effectively within his or her own business and partner networks.