About O3 Cyber

Our story

Our mission is to provide the security and trust needed to adopt Platforms, Cloud and AI with confidence.

We guide our clients and the wider community through customer excellence, community engagement, and research.

Our team of industry thought leaders excels in solving complex strategic challenges for clients. Since our founding, we have a proven track-record of delivering exceptional quality across engagements involving AI, cloud and container platforms. Our typical customer has security top of mind, wanting to reduce security risks that often require overcoming challenges.

We're driven by intellectual curiosity and a commitment to continuous learning. Community-driven knowledge sharing remains at the heart of our values, fueling both our expertise and our contribution to the broader cybersecurity field. As an independent boutique consultancy, we prioritize transparency internally in the company, and balance autonomy with responsibility.

O3 Cyber was founded in late 2022. The name O3 represents Ozone (O3) which forms a protective layer in the stratosphere shielding Earth from UV radiation. O3 Cyber supports clients with proactive cloud security, protecting their mission-critical assets in cloud environments.

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By the numbers

Trusted across the Nordics

A boutique consultancy delivering measurable impact for cloud-native enterprises and scale-ups.

12
Experts
and growing intentionally
10
Years average experience
in cloud and platform security
60+
Podcast episodes
shared with the community
50+
Knowledge articles
from our engineers and partners

Our talent

Karim El-Melhaoui
Karim El-MelhaouiPrincipal Security Architect & Partner
Olav Østbye
Olav ØstbyePrincipal Cloud Security Manager & Partner
Håkon Nikolai Stange Sørum
Håkon Nikolai Stange SørumPrincipal Security Architect & Partner
Martin Lien
Martin LienPrincipal Security Engineer
Thomas Bradley Martin
Thomas Bradley MartinFinance Manager
Jarand Nikolai Jansen
Jarand Nikolai JansenPrincipal Security Engineer
Andreas Døhl
Andreas DøhlPrincipal Platform Security Engineer
Bendik Schartum Thorbjørnsen
Bendik Schartum ThorbjørnsenSenior Security Engineer
Johan Paramanathan
Johan ParamanathanLead Security Engineer
Andreas Søvik
Andreas SøvikLead Security Engineer
Audun Blichfeldt Mo
Audun Blichfeldt MoPrincipal Security Engineer
Eivind Høydal
Eivind HøydalLead Cloud Security Manager