National security is back at the top of the political agenda as we face global polycrisis. Total defence is being revived, but since last time, the world has changed beyond recognition.
Decades of outsourcing and privatization of security, not to mention the context of global interdependence, hyperconnectivity, and geopolitical tectonic shifts, force us to think new.
The INSIDER project has gathered a team of distinguished specialists in the field, inviting academics, defence and security sector officials, students, and engaged citizens into a timely and provocative discussion.
This seminar is part of the fundamental research project National Security through Private Sector Regulation? Critical Evaluation of Insider Threat Programs and Security Compliance in Current Geopolitical and Regulatory Context (INSIDER) funded by the Ministry of Defence of Norway, project no. 203480.
The event is jointly organized by OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University and the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies.
The seminar is free and open for all upon online registration.
Program
Morning
- 09:00-09:05: Welcome by Jardar Østbø, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies
- 09:05-09:45: Keynote Lecture: "National Security Through Private Sector Regulation and (Cyber)Security Compliance?" by Tereza Østbø Kuldova, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
- 09:45-10:15: Panel Discussion: "Regulatory Complexity and the Compliance-Industrial Complex: Translating Law into Practice", by
- Emily Mary Weitzenboeck, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
- Olav Lysne, Simula & OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
- Tereza Østbø Kuldova, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
- 10:15-10:30: Q&A
- 10:30-10:45 Break
- 10:45-11:15: Panel Discussion: "Preventive Security and Risk Management in the Name of National Security: Disavowing Fundamental Tensions?", by
- Hallvard Notaker, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies
- Kristoffer Lidén, Peace Research Institute Oslo
- Tereza Østbø Kuldova, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
- 11:15-11:30: Q&A
- 11:30-12:15: Lunch Break
After lunch
- 12:15-12:45: Panel Discussion: "Intelligence Unbounded? The Shapeshifting of Corporate and State Threat and (Cyber)Security Intelligence".
- Sebastian Larsson, Swedish Defence University
- Jason McKillen, Queens University Belfast
- Tereza Østbø Kuldova, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
- 12:45-13:00: Q&A
- 13:00-13:30: Panel Discussion: "Weaponizing Interdependence and Leveraging Private Sector (Managerial) Infrastructures? Beyond the Assumptions of Alignment in the Context of Total Defence".
- Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
- Per Martin Norheim Martinsen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences & OsloMet
- Tereza Østbø Kuldova, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
- 13:30-13:45: Q&A
- 13:45-14:00: Concluding Remarks by Jardar Østbø, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies
