Baylan on the Swedish national grid: A lax attitude

DN recently revealed that Svenska kraftnät's director general, Ulla Sandborgh provided incorrect information on the authority's säkerhetsprövningar – high-level managers have been hired or contracted in very sensitive positions without proper background checks. Sandborgh contested the first DN's data, but then, she has changed.

Just as in a previous DN-interview lifts the former minister of energy Ibrahim Baylan in the SR until the shortcomings in the säkerhetsskyddsarbetet as particularly serious.

– When it comes to security and, not least, cyber-security, there are no if and but, the rules are there for a reason.

you have been strict and clear in both the regulatory framework, the government and other instructions, and instead believe that the shortcomings in IT security is rooted in a ”lax attitude, which has been going on for too long”.

" I think, unfortunately, that you have been too optimistic concerning these issues, therefore, it is important to do a proper supervision so that you can get to the action if needed.

He repeats several times that it is important to put all the cards on the table around the shortcomings that have emerged in the DN's review, and therefore welcomes both to the Fbi wired for supervision, and the KU-notification that was made against him and Stefan Löfven earlier in the week.

" I always think that you as the maximum responsible should take full responsibility and do what you can. This is so important issues that it is important that you go to the bottom of them, he says to Ekot.

to give continued confidence to Svenska kraftnät's director general, Ulla Sandborgh, but on the reporter's question of whether there can be a speech about the consequences for the agency's top management excludes the he not that the setting can be changed.

" When we get all the papers on the table, it can of course both have consequences and further action, if it turns out that it is where it has failed.