Meet the SensorFu team - Lauri
Welcome to the Sensorfu Spotlight! We’re pulling back the curtain to introduce the experts, innovators, and problem-solvers who drive our mission forward. This time, we’re featuring Lauri from our Customer Success team. Focused on the technical side of the house, Lauri ensures our clients get the most out of our tools by bridging the gap between complex systems and seamless operations. Today, he shares his experience to keep client networks resilient.
What’s your role at the company, and what does a typical day look like for you? My role is a Customer Success Specialist, or more rather, an engineer. I take care of clients’ technical and other questions and act as a bridge between Beacon users and the developers. My typical work day contains meetings with clients, via email or phone calls.
How did you get started in your career, and what led you to this company? My background is in industrial automation engineering, and I have been building and maintaining industrial DCS systems as a systems specialist for almost ten years before joining SensorFu. I was also involved in paper quality and physical machine condition monitoring projects. I was mainly the network guy doing network stuff, and also building and maintaining virtual environments for industrial systems. I have always been interested in networks and related basics of network cyber security. In industrial environments, simple and effective things matter and the very simple and straightforward nature of Beacon is what caught my attention. When I got invited to SensorFu to work with Beacon, I couldn’t turn down the offer.
How would you describe SensorFu company culture and how does it differ from other places you’ve worked? SensorFu company is more of a startup mindset company than the previous places. Things happen fast internally and the organization is rather flat.
What motivated you to get involved in cybersecurity? I have always been interested in networks and computers, and finding ways to circumvent different limitations. In previous workplaces I was working with the networks and firewalls in OT environments, and saw how easy it would be to improve cyber security with simple automated solutions.
What is the one cybersecurity trend or threat that you think more people should be paying attention to right now? Modern threats come from AI and the related pace of malware development. To remedy this, especially in OT environments, getting back to basics should be the trend. Proactive cybersecurity (in a form of ensuring segmentation for example) would go a long way, in a simple, affordable and effective way. Once the base is built well, the modern threats have a hard time succeeding no matter how sophisticated they are.
Where do you see the cybersecurity landscape heading by 2030? Are we winning the race against the “bad actors”? It would be a bold statement to say that we are winning. The bad actors are evolving but so are we. An important thing to remember at all times is that taking care that the basics are covered, and that would take us a long way ahead already.
What’s your favorite way to “unplug” and recharge after a day of being constantly connected? Taking a long run or walk outside, or listening to music
