Essity

Essity, spun off in 2017, is a multinational hygiene and health corporation serving roughly a billion people daily across 150 countries. The operational footprint is massive and distributed - consumer goods, professional hygiene, and medical products all moving through complex global supply chains. Brands like TENA, Tork, Libresse, and Leukoplast represent distinct business areas with different threat surfaces: consumer data, industrial IoT in manufacturing, healthcare data under regulatory scrutiny, and sprawling third-party vendor ecosystems. The attack model for a company at this scale isn't hypothetical. Manufacturing lines running operational technology, B2B procurement portals, consumer-facing e-commerce, and health-related data pipelines each demand different defensive postures. Essity's commitment to net zero emissions by 2050 also suggests ongoing digital transformation - cloud migrations, smart factory initiatives - that expand the blast radius if security lags behind. Sustainability targets and operational security increasingly share the same dependency: reliable, hardened digital infrastructure. Cybersecurity here isn't perimeter defense for a single product - it's risk management across hygiene, healthcare, and consumer verticals, each carrying its own compliance regimes and data classifications. The team operating in this environment works across domains: securing OT/IT convergence in manufacturing, protecting PII and health data, managing identity at scale, and building resilience into supply chain systems that span continents.