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.

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.

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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.