Netnod's Robust Digitalised Organisations (RDO) helps your organisation gain control over digital vulnerability — the dependencies that determine whether operations continue when digital services, systems, or suppliers are disrupted. It is a management tool designed to support timely and well-informed decision-making.
Gain control over digital vulnerabilities
Through a structured process, leadership gains a consolidated view of the organisation’s critical dependencies, clear allocation of responsibilities, and a prioritised action plan. It clarifies who owns which risks, what decisions are required, and what needs to be followed up over time.
RDO also stress-tests the organisation through a realistic scenario, showing how operations function in a crisis: which communication paths are used, how responsibilities are exercised, and which actions must be taken first to keep the organisation running.
Who is RDO for?
RDO is designed for organisations where digital systems are essential for production, services, and societal functions to operate — across the public sector, private industry, and civil society.
It provides leadership with a comprehensive and decision-relevant view of the organisation’s digital dependencies and vulnerabilities. The result is a structured basis for balancing regulatory requirements, resources, and operational risks — and for making prioritised decisions that strengthen operational resilience over time.
Why your organisation needs RDO
Balance your digital maturity
Digitalisation often advances rapidly and is driven by operational needs, while responsibility and prioritisation for resilience have become secondary. RDO enables leadership to take a coordinated approach and build a more deliberate and long-term capability.
Decision support for leadership
During a structured four-to-six-week process, we bring leadership and operational teams together to focus on the most critical digital dependencies — the factors that ultimately determine whether the organisation continues to function when systems are under pressure.
The process provides a consolidated view of how responsibilities, information flows, and priorities operate under stress, and results in a clear and prioritised action plan.
But the work does not end there.
RDO is designed to build a long-term capability. It establishes a method that can be followed up, developed, and integrated into normal governance — ensuring that robustness becomes part of ongoing leadership responsibility rather than a one-off project.
Strategic alignment
The work aligns with NIS2 and national preparedness requirements, while starting from the organisation’s real operational needs rather than the regulatory framework itself.
From an IT issue to a leadership responsibility
Digital robustness is not an isolated IT issue. It is a matter of governance, responsibility, and the ability to make timely decisions.
What distinguishes Netnod is our role in the digital infrastructure — in Sweden and internationally.
Why Netnod?
For more than 25 years, we have operated critical infrastructure that the Internet depends on. These responsibilities are entrusted to very few organisations and are built on long-term trust.
Through our Internet Exchange (IX) operations, we run the interconnection points where network operators connect their networks. This is where traffic is exchanged directly between networks, enabling alternative routes, shorter paths, and greater resilience when disruptions occur.
Through our work in DNS — including our role in operating one of the world’s 13 DNS root servers (I-root) — we are part of the global structure that allows the Internet to function at all. If domain names cannot be resolved, no systems can find each other, regardless of how well the network itself performs.
Netnod is a foundation-owned and operator-neutral Swedish company. Our IX nodes are neutral meeting points — we are not tied to a single commercial operator but instead act as an infrastructure enabler. Network operators, public authorities and companies connect because they know the infrastructure is stable, long-term and impartial.
We are also entrusted by the Swedish state to distribute Swedish national time and have experience advising governments and the EU, as well as participating in advanced international cyber-defence exercises.
This is a trust capital that has been built over many years.
RDO is a new business area within Netnod — but it is not based on a traditional consulting model. It builds on the same foundation as our other activities: real operational experience of critical digital infrastructure. Our strength lies in combining deep technical understanding with a focus on leadership, governance and decision-making. We translate experience from operating infrastructure into strategic resilience for others.
Rooted in our infrastructure expertise, we help organisations with high digital dependency build a long-term, leadership-anchored capability to continue operating even when systems are under pressure.
