All blog posts written in English.
I had the pleasure to attend a panel at an event arranged by Silicon Vikings Oslo Chapter on October 16th. The headline was “Silicon Vikings Valley Night” with John Montgomery, Jennifer Vessels and Eva Bjørseth as speakers and panelists. Great people from Silicon Valley. I wasn’t part of this, not until the day before when I met Tone S. Ringstad, … Read more
On October 15th I had the pleasure to pitch Ensafer at Norwegian Investment Forum 2013 (NIF) in Oslo. The conference was held at Oslotech with around 200 attendees and 24 selected startups giving their pitches and showcasing their products at individual stands in an expo area. This is an annual investment conference attracting attendees from … Read more
You’ve all heard about Edward Snowden and PRISM lately. And you’ve probably heard several stories about data breaches this year. And I guess you’ve noticed that media has been telling such stories more often than ever the last year. To give you an idea of what’s been going on the last ten years, you should … Read more
Once again, and for the fifth time the last year, I’m back in the Bay Area. This time I’ve spent a week here arriving on March 18th and heading back to Norway one week later. The main reason for coming here was to attend ITSEF 2013 held for the 7th time. It’s a IT Security conference … Read more
Can you believe it? LinkedIn now has 200 million members, and my profile was one of the top 1% most viewed for 2012. Actually, I wouldn’t have believed it – if it wasn’t for an email from LinkedIn telling me just that. It looked like this: Well, it’s great! Really. But I don’t feel like … Read more
A couple of days ago my inbox was filled with emails without me expecting it. All of a sudden there were hundreds of emails on my iPhone. What is happening late at night on a Tuesday, I wondered. And it just happened when I attended the Norwegian Nordic Startup Awards at Mesh in Oslo arranged … Read more
A couple of weeks ago Ensafer was launched at DEMO Fall 2012 in Silicon Valley – as I have written in an earlier blog post. And this is how I described Ensafer there: “Ensafer is an encryption service for the Cloud, and it offers users of Dropbox, Microsoft SkyDrive, Google Drive and alike to encrypt their … Read more
Last week I presented Ensafer at DEMO Fall 2012 in Santa Clara in Silicon Valley in front of 1.000 attendees, including 100 from the press. We were one of 75 companies from 14 countries who reached the stage at DEMO after hard competition among hundreds of appliers. Being a small technology company from Norway, we … Read more
For many years Invenia has been located in the city of Tromsø in norhtern part of Norway with both management and R&D. It’s been a great place and an urban city to build our company in. This is the biggest city in the north of Norway with about 70.000 inhabitans. We just love this great … Read more
I could have done this the simple way by just passing you the URL to the blog post at CSO showing the original stuff. But since this is both important and interesting reading, I decided to write my own blog post. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) is a non-profit organization in the US designed … Read more