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Hanna Linderstål

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Hanna Linderstål
Born
Stockholm, Sweden
NationalitySwedish

Hanna Linderstål is a Swedish business executive, entrepreneur and the CEO of Earhart Business Protection Agency.[1]

Career

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After mandatory military service, Linderstål began her professional career in the field of business protection and risk management and worked in information security. She is the founder of Earhart Business Protection Agency,[1] a Swedish agency based in Stockholm that specializes in business protection services, including risk assessments, security consulting, crisis management, executive and board advisory.[1]

Linderstål speaks about cyber security, security challenges and digital power. In 2016 she highlighted the risks with digital footprints being used for targeting social media with focus on Facebook and Twitter.[citation needed] In 2019 she was interviewed by the former Swedish media PS, the newspaper was closed down in 2021, the article was used as a parliamentary motion[2] about social media app TikTok. In February 2020 Linderstål highlighted the risks on digital monitoring and lack of information security for employees in the Swedish largest union media Kollega.[3] In March 2020 she was interviewed[4] by the Swedish national radio P1 about Internet trolling. In March 2020 she participated in the hybrid warfare exercise testing resilience to hybrid threats: a real-time case study[5] at Friends of Europe. In 2020 she highlighted the risk with disinformation on social media. Her investigations led to a large media interest and articles in Politico,[6] Financial times[7] HBL[8] in Finland, Swedish newspaper SvD,[9] Swedish newspaper DN.[10] She also wrote a chapter in the government initiated project "The democratic talk[11]" together with her colleague Jessica Giandomenico.[12] In March 2021 she participated in a debate[13] with the Think tank Futurion.[14] In June 2022 she participated in Friends of Europe event 21st century warfare a whole of society approach to resilience [15] In October 2022 she was one of the speakers at the EU disinfolab annual disinformation conference [16] In December 2022 she participated in European Centre of excellence for countering Hybrid threats wargame in Brussles where she also lead a panel discussion. In December 2022 Linderstål was a speaker at the Metaverse safety week 2022.[17]

Philanthropy and personal life

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Hanna Linderstål is involved in philanthropic initiatives. She believes in giving back to the community and supporting causes that promote safety, education and empowerment. She was the convener for the consul for psychological defense,[18] an initiative from the total defend association active from 2017 to 2022, a non profit, non political organisation in Sweden that discussed the need for an authority for psychological defense. She also has the role as vice president for the Swedish Psyops association a voluntary organization that supports authorities and the public with seminars and courses on how to identify disinformation. Linderstål is also co-chairman for the ITU WG metaverse TG Cybersecurity.[citation needed]

Notes and references

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  1. ^ a b c "Earhart Business Protection Agency". bizprotectionagency.com. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  2. ^ "Spionage genom appar (Skriftlig fråga 2019/20:1669 av Björn Söder (SD))". www.riksdagen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  3. ^ "Så skyddar du dig mot cyberbrott på jobbet". kollega.se (in Swedish). 2020-02-17. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  4. ^ ""Vem som helst kan bli ett troll"". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). 2020-03-02. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  5. ^ https://www.friendsofeurope.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/FoE_TTX-Tabletop_2021.pdf
  6. ^ Cerulus, Laurens (2020-04-30). "How anti-5G anger sparked a wave of arson attacks across Europe". POLITICO. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  7. ^ Murphy, Hannah; Stefano, Mark Di; Fildes, Nic (2020-04-16). "How a 5G coronavirus conspiracy spread across Europe | Free to read". Financial Times. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  8. ^ Dunham/AP/TT, Matt. "Konspirationsteorierna får britterna att sabotera mobilmaster". www.hbl.fi (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  9. ^ Buxton, Charlotta (2020-06-23). "Konspirationsteorin om 5G bara en bit av större pussel". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). ISSN 1101-2412. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  10. ^ "Konspirationsteorier i sociala medier skapar våg av 5G-sabotage". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 2020-06-21. ISSN 1101-2447. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  11. ^ Linderstål, Hanna (202). Det demokratiska samtalet i en digital tid. Så stärker vi motståndskraften mot desinformation propaganda och näthat (in Swedish). Sweden: Betänkande av kommittén Nationell satsning på midie-och informationskunnighet och det demokratiska samtalet SOU 2020:56. pp. 70–91. ISBN 978-91-38-25096-9.
  12. ^ Infoglue-support. "Jessica Giandomenico - Uppsala University, Sweden". www.katalog.uu.se. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  13. ^ Djerf, Kristin (2021-03-01). "Demokratisamtal 3: "Vi måste rusta oss mot missinformation och uppblåst debatt"". Tankesmedjan Futurion (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  14. ^ "Välkommen till Futurion". Tankesmedjan Futurion (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  15. ^ EPIC (2022-06-01). "21st century warfare: a whole of society approach to resilience". Friends of Europe. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  16. ^ "- YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  17. ^ "Metaverse safety Week 2022 - 10-15 December". Metaverse Safety Week. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  18. ^ Totalförsvar (2021-02-02). "Rådet för psykologiskt försvar". Totalförsvarsstiftelsen (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-07-15.