Advenica launches secure cloud service in Norway which supports the new EU data protection law

The leading Swedish cybersecurity company Advenica is launching, in cooperation
with the Norwegian company Databanken AS, a cloud service for confidential
information, specially designed for Norwegian municipalities and authorities.
The service follows the new EU data protection law – General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR) that will replace Data Protection Directive (DPD) and its
national implementations, in May 2018.
Advenica’s solution provides a stronger protection of the subscriber, as well as
for those who handle the registration or process the personal data, with a
unique encryption solution for managing the sensitive information. The solution
ensures that sensitive data is safely transferred from a municipality or
authority to the actual storage, without the supplier being able to gain access
to read or in any other way manipulate the information.

“Handling personal data in a cloud service and not least in social media is a
complex area. In the near future companies can be fined up to four percent of
their global income and up to 20 million Euros if they don’t follow the new EU
data protection law. At Advenica, we already offer services that prevents
sensitive information that needs to be protected from ending up in the wrong
hands”, says Einar Lindquist, CEO, Advenica AB.

GDPR is relevant for companies that collect, process or store personal data. The
law applies to companies operating in the EU and non-EU organisations – all
those who have business relations with an organisation that’s active in the EU
or stores data in any EU country. This is to ensure the protection being as
comprehensive as possible for EU citizens.

The Data Protection Regulation will replace the former Data Protection Act (PUL)
based on the previous EU directive Data Protection Directive (DPD). The aim of
the new data protection regulation is to efficiently modernise data protection
rules in the 28 EU member countries that have lagged behind in the digital
development.

In recent decades the technology has undergone a tremendous development and the
time has come to introduce new revolutionary solutions that enable big savings
and increase safety for the continuously increasing amount of data in the public
sector. Today´s technology platforms make it possible to design solutions that
can be a part of the foundation for national standardization, based on
intelligent use of today´s standard solutions with a very high degree of
flexibility regarding existing local solutions within the public sector. It’s a
great advantage that already developed platforms (e.g. Altinn, Feide and HELFO)
for different kinds of services can easily be integrated with Databankens
services and products.

“The services that Advenica offers are used by nations and their security
organisations. We are very proud to be the first ones offering future-proof
solutions for Norwegian municipalities and authorities which will be legislated
in the EU in 2018”, says Ernst M. Carlsen, CEO, Databanken AS.

In October 2015 Advenica entered into a strategic cooperation with Databanken,
which provides cloud-based solutions to their customers in Norway.

Based on guidance on information security by the Norwegian data protection
authority, the Norwegian public sector has in the last 20 years built safe and
secure solutions after their best capabilities with the available technology.
This has resulted in hundreds of installations across the country that currently
is operated, maintained, upgraded and renewed locally in 600 governmental, 19
county municipal and 428 municipal organisations within information and
communication technology.

About Databanken

Databanken delivers secure cloud solutions. The concept is created and built by
Technet Consulting AS who have more than 20 years of experience and skills as a
supplier of services and products to government, county municipal and municipal
users. Databanken combines and configures existing products from manufacturers
like Advenica, HP, Microsoft, Citrix and VMware in a smart way with components
from manufacturers of security and encryption technology. www.databanken.global

For further information, please contact:

Einar Lindquist, CEO Advenica AB, +46 (0)704 29 98 39,
einar.lindquist@advenica.com
Ernst M. Carlsen, CEO Databanken AS +47 95 22 83 22, emc@databank1.no


The service can be ordered at Advenica’s website www.advenica.com/partners
About Advenica

Advenica is a leading European provider of cybersecurity. Advenica develops,
manufactures and sells advanced cyber security solutions that prevent
intrusions, theft and data leakage at information exchanges and therefore
enables interaction between and within nations, organisations and systems with
high security requirements. www.advenica.com

Advenica AB is a publicly traded company listed on Nasdaq OMQ First North
Premier with the name ADVE. Certified Adviser is Erik Penser Bankaktiebolag.
www.penser.se