The transition from dean of the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) to pro vice-chancellor for research infrastructure and digitalisation has been an exciting experience. Exciting, challenging, but also very enjoyable.
The “Krantz inquiry” report – Strong Focus on Tomorrow’s Research Infrastructure was published during the summer. In the 338-page report, Tobias Krantz examines conditions, needs and opportunities. The inquiry will be scrutinised, but an initial reflection is that there is much that is positive, some parts that we feel are missing, and some parts that we do not agree with. There will be some hard work during the autumn.
Our own e-infrastructure inquiry was completed just before the summer. This is also to be examined and discussed. Spontaneously, I want to say that we have a considerable job to get more up-to-date management of these issues. One example is information and IT security. During the summer, there has been a lot of coverage of cyberattacks on several companies. My spontaneous question: is LU equipped? Like so many other organisations, we are vulnerable, a situation that needs to be treated with the utmost seriousness by everyone. Be suspicious, don’t click on links and then think about where the email actually came from!
We must all act to ensure that sensitive information is not disclosed. I hope that you can spend ten minutes to take the course via Kompetensportalen.
/Viktor Öwall
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