Tap Into Cybersecurity Potential

The world around us is constantly shifting. From digital disruption to geopolitical instability and physical risks, today’s organizations are navigating a complex and unpredictable environment. And while change is inevitable, how we respond to it is what defines resilience.

Cybersecurity: Navigating a Moving Target

The cyber landscape isn't static — it evolves with technology, with society, and with the intentions of those who seek to exploit it.

Increasingly, we are seeing that cybersecurity isn’t just about technical defense; it’s about understanding systems, interdependencies, and behaviors. It's about anticipating what’s coming next. Trends like generative AI highlight this reality, offering game-changing opportunities while simultaneously introducing novel risks we’re only beginning to understand.

This creates a paradox: the more connected and capable we become, the more exposed we get.

Where We Are: Security Starts with Visibility

Infrastructure security remains the cornerstone of cyber resilience. Currently many organizations still focus on foundational controls: segmentation, network visibility, and firewalls. These functions aren’t outdated—they’re essential.

In fact, these basics are becoming more important, not less, as environments grow in complexity. Understanding what’s happening inside your network, who’s talking to what, where traffic flows and what’s exposed is no longer a luxury. It’s a prerequisite for control.

But this visibility needs to scale. And that’s where things start to shift.

Shifting the Perimeter: Security at the Edge

Work happens everywhere now — on-premises, in the clouds, across continents and time zones. The concept of a single, clearly defined perimeter is long gone. What’s emerging in its place is Security Service Edge (SSE): a model that moves security closer to the user, wherever they are.

SSE isn’t just a technical solution. It reflects a broader shift in thinking from static defenses to dynamic protection. It’s about policy that travels with users, data that’s secured wherever it lives, and threat protection that’s always-on but never in the way.

This is less about technology alone and more about adapting our frameworks to the realities of modern work.

Looking Ahead: The Role of AI in Security

If SSE is the now, AI is the not-so-distant future.

We’re beginning to see security tools that can reason, detect, and respond at machine speed. Tools that aren’t just rule-based but behavior-aware. AI isn’t just another layer, it’s an enabler of scale, speed, and proactivity in an environment that’s too complex for manual oversight.

That said, AI is also part of the problem. Attackers are using it, too—crafting more convincing phishing attempts, automating reconnaissance, and discovering vulnerabilities faster than ever. In this arms race, being reactive isn’t good enough. The challenge is to think ahead and design systems that are adaptive by default.

The Partnership Perspective: It’s Not About One Toolset

When we talk about cybersecurity strategy, it’s easy to get caught up in products. But the more valuable conversation is around partnership — about ecosystems of support, shared learning, and integrated capability.

The collaboration between Cisco and Tele2 is rooted in this idea. It’s less about stacking solutions, instead more about co-creating frameworks that reflect the nuanced, hybrid environments that you operate in.

From infrastructure, to edge, to AI, we’re exploring how organizations can move beyond isolated controls and toward systems that are aware, responsive, and contextual.

”Cybersecurity is not only about protecting systems — it is about protecting trust”

– Henrik Bergqvist, Regional Manager, Cybersecurity Cisco

Real-World Questions That Still Matter

Cybersecurity conversations often get abstract quickly. But the real questions many still wrestling are:

• How do we secure a production environment that talks to both internal apps and cloud?

• How do we securely connect non-critical devices — like smart TVs, elevators or coffee machines?

• How do we balance the needs of IT and OT when they operate on different assumptions?

The answers aren’t always obvious, but they do start with asking the right questions, and building strategies that reflect the complexity of the world we work in.

Security Is Not a Finish Line

Cybersecurity is not a checklist. It’s not something you “complete.” It’s a living system that evolves along with your organization. The risk landscape will continue to change due to global events, new technology, or new regulations.

Tele2 and Cisco are here to support along the way. We thank you for taking the time to read and hope you have gained important insights.

Kind regards,

Martin Fransson
Head of Security, Tele2 Företag