My first year at Truesec

Earlier this week I celebrated my first year at Truesec, which always is a good opportunity for a bit of retrospection.

I was interviewed and hired in the middle of the pandemic. No in-person meetings at all in the recruiting process. In the first six months I spent all of an hour and a half in the office, and that was to pick up my equipment on day one. Odd times indeed.

I joined Truesec in part because I felt it was a company that had and recruited the absolute best cybersecurity resources available, in Sweden and elsewhere, and I felt this environment would inspire me to find the very best quality possible in my own work. This has definitely been a very real experience. When I look at the work we do, and the quaility of people I get to work with, I can't possibly give it anything less than my all.

I have spent the majority of my first year as a line resource in compliance and cybersecurity for one of Truesec's strategic customers. It has been exciting and educational, and I am very thankful for the people I have gotten to work with on this assignment, both at Truesec but particularly at the customer. It has truly been a partnership, and its been very rewarding to have Truesec's expertise to call on when needed.

Going into 2022 I will be focusing on new assignments in compliance/strategy, Security assessments and Incident Management. I look forward to working more closely with some other parts of the organization.

Now, in the recruitment process both management and staff that I got to meet were candid with the internal challenges at hand as well, and this is also something that has proved true. A company in fast growth that is trying to broaden it's offering to organizations always makes for a challenging environment. And trying to retain the culture that made the company what it is while trying to expand the culture to better fit the company we want it to become is tricky at best.

But I expect the quality of Truesec's offering and its dedication to structured growth will allow these challenges to be overcome. And nobody can deny it's both fun and rewarding to be able to contribute to an organization that is growing

Truesec's expertise in human and technical threat analysis, software development, SOC services, Strategic Compliance and Cybersecurity work and Incident Management allows us to comprehensively cover Predict, Prevent, Detect, Respond, and Recover in a way that very few companies can do at our level.

It feels like people are noticing, too, including Radar Ecosystems (Radar Ecosystems Specialists Report 2021 - Truesec) and Microsoft (Truesec awarded to Microsoft's - Truesec)

During the Covid pandemic Truesec has doubled in size, and the number of companies we help resolve Major Cybersecurity Incidents have more than quadrupled in a year. We have new owners (New Financial Partnership Announcement - Truesec and IK partners - Truesec), and a focus on continuing our leading position in Sweden and expanding our presence in Europe and the US.

So, in short I'm very glad I made the decision I made a year ago. It's been a great year, and the future is looking very bright indeed.

Stay safe, my friends.