Security in Visma

In Visma, security has a high priority and we devote a large amount of resources to keep Visma's applications, employees, solutions and infrastructure secure, as well as, always securing our customers data at all times. We have highly skilled security teams all over Europe, monitoring activity around the clock, 24/7 all days through the year.

We have a large security team consisting of a number of security engineers, security analysts, incident responders, penetration testers, security advisors, security architects, security research scientists, security managers and compliance managers located all over Europe. In addition, each company in the Visma umbrella has their own security teams who can rely on the corporate team if needed.

But most importantly - we have over 15.000 security ambassadors in our employees, since we truly believe that cyber security is a shared responsibility!

Transparency and Openness

In addition, we value transparency and openness when it comes to our communication around cyber security, because we believe that we are all facing the same common enemy - cyber criminals, and thus we’re all in the same boat. We have everything to gain from knowledge sharing and learning from each other in order to face the ever-growing threat of cyber crime.

Therefore Visma has chosen to be open about our experiences, and set the issue on the agenda. We want to talk about cyber crime, because we believe that awareness is the key to a stronger security culture within a company and thus a better security.

Security Awareness Programme

To create a strong security culture, we have created a Security Awareness Programme. Consisting of many initiatives, the programme has as its main objective to continuously educate and inspire our employees and spread the word about cyber threats and how to avoid them. This is something we’re passionate about because we firmly believe that our employees are part of a joint effort on the war on cyber crime.

How we Empower our Developers

DevSecOps in Visma is about enabling our development teams to deliver secure products and services. A key contributor to this is the Visma Application Security Program (VASP). This is a comprehensive set of standardised security services and solutions, that integrates tightly with the workflows and pipelines of the development teams. Management, other stakeholders and the development teams themselves, can keep track of the performance towards the program using the Visma Index. The Visma Index provides a live view of the security state of the service, using different metrics like discovered vulnerabilities, resolution time, and usage of the different security services and solutions. VASP already has wide coverage within Visma, and adoption is growing rapidly

TechTalks about #security

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Latest blog posts about #security

What is 2FA (two-factor authentication)?

8 August 2022

2FA is an extra layer of security used to verify your identification. It’s a smart way to protect your online accounts against cyber criminals.

Password manager – what is it and what are the benefits?

28 July 2022

Do you use a couple of passwords in different variations? Maybe with "123" at the end? If yes, stop everything you've done up until now and get a password manager.

A collage showing the photos of some of the women interviewed for this article about women working with security at Visma.

Meet our employees: Women are the future of cyber security (part 2)

16 June 2022

More and more women are working with cyber security in the software industry, and Visma is no exception. In the second part of this two-part series, get to know more of the talented women who are protecting Visma’s cloud software from cyber threats.

Meet our employees: Women are the future of cyber security (part 1)

12 May 2022

Cyber security is no longer a male-dominated industry. More and more women are entering this vital discipline that protects people and their data from cyber attackers. In part one of this two-part series, get to know some of the talented women working with cyber security at Visma.

What is ransomware and how does it work?

10 May 2022

Ransomware attacks have been on the rise. If you’re not familiar with this type of virus, it’s time to read up on it to protect your data.

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Connected by Software – Driven by People

23 March 2022

2021 was a year of both continuity and change. Covid remains a burden on the global economy and organisations are looking for cloud solutions to help them stay productive from any location. We also saw new trends, from rising expectations among jobseekers in the talent market, to rapidly growing cybercrime. Learn more about these trends and find out how Visma is addressing them.