About us

Purpose

Nordic Financial CERT is a collaborative, member‑driven community working to safeguard the Nordic financial sector from cyber threats and financial crime.

We unite banks, insurance companies, payment providers, and financial infrastructure operators to detect, analyse, and respond to threats that impact the resilience of the region’s financial ecosystem.

Our mission is to strengthen collective defense by enabling data sharing, threat intelligence, and incident coordination and support across the Nordics. Through close cooperation, real-time insights, and a strong operational culture, we help our members stay prepared, informed, and resilient in an increasingly complex threat landscape.

NFCERT operates as a non-profit and member-controlled organisation, making us a trusted partner for our 200+ members. We operate all over the Nordics.

If you are interested to learn more or become a member, don’t hesitate to reach out.

Vision and mission

Today each country has at least one forum for sharing information, knowledge, and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs). Unfortunately, criminals do not care about borders and, therefore, we should also expand our views to not only look in our own backyard, but also establish information about what is going on in the neighbour region, and learn from each other by binding information together.

Our vision is to make the Nordic Financial Sector
the most secure and resilient in the world.

Mission

NFCERT achieves its vision by focusing on the following mission objectives:

  • Be the preferred Nordic hub for collaboration by facilitating intelligence and data sharing between members, partners and governmental institutions
  • Empower our members to build stronger resilience through the sharing of actionable threat intelligence, conducting incident support, exercises and advisory
  • Help members stay compliant in the areas of cyber security and financial crime by providing services that are aligned with regulatory requirements

History

The journey so far

2007
First Internet Banking Trojan attacks in Norway.

2008-2012
Formal and informal collaboration to prevent and respond to cross-sector cyber incidents. The need for a collaborative approach grew.

2013
FinansCERT founded in Norway. Took on role as Sector Incident Response Team (SRM) for the Norwegian financial sector.

2017
Nordic Financial CERT established and expanded with members from all Nordic countries. Expanded role to Sector Incident Response Team (part of DCIS Finans) in Denmark.

2025
New strategy defined by the Board of Directors to further expand NFCERTs focus to Financial Crime Prevention and establish a Nordic Data Sharing Hub.

Board of directors

Chair of the Board
Erik Melgaard
AL Sydbank (Denmark)

Vice Chair of the Board
Anders Hardangen
DNB (Norway)

Board Member
Iða Brá Benediktsdóttir
Arion Bank (Iceland)

Board Member
Desirée Davidsen
SpareBank 1 (Norway)

Board Member
Charlotta Lekman
Gjensidige Försäkring (Sweden)

Board Member
Lance McGrath
Danske Bank (Denmark)

Board Member
Ian Watson
Nordea (Sweden)