Securing Sweden’s leading wholesale food distributor

About Svensk Cater

Svensk Cater is one of Sweden’s leading wholesale food distributors, supplying commercial kitchens, restaurants, and food service providers across the country. The company operates across 15 regional sites and warehouses from Malmö in the south to Löddeköping in the north. They rely on a hybrid infrastructure which connects on-premises legacy systems, external data center environments, and cloud applications––all tied together to maintain a unified front for their customers.

We had the pleasure of speaking with their CTO, Björn Wallin, to discuss how Svensk Cater relies on Aftra to monitor their external attack surface, track user exposure, and maintain security control across their ecosystem.

What Aftra provides

• External attack surface and user credential monitoring.
• Independent verification of third-party developer fixes.
• Dynamic scoring and executive reporting for ISO 27001 and NIS2 compliance.
• Personalized customer success support to analyze findings and drive proactive remediation.

The story in short

Svensk Cater adopted Aftra as part of their final step to complete a multi-year digital transformation and compliance initiative. Operating with a lean IT team across 15 sites, the company needed continuous external visibility without adding to their daily overhead.

Aftra serves as an outside-in healthy check. We verify external vendor remediations, flag exposed credentials, and supply a digestible security score to track progress for executive leadership and compliance reporting.

The main challenge: Discovering hidden exposure in a hybrid environment

Guided by ISO 27001 and NIS2 standards, Björn and his team systematically overhauled their IT environment. They replaced hardware, updated network infrastructure, and standardized user endpoints. They also implemented intrusion detection, network detection, and malware tools.

But they still lacked a tool to check internet-facing exposure and track what users were doing externally. Björn admits that he didn’t expect to find major issues initially, but Aftra showed that their exposure was more than anticipated.

Decentralized operations and vendor accountability

With shared infrastructure across multiple locations, managing digital risk is complex. Svensk Cater relies heavily on third-party developers for specialized web services, but verifying their work was difficult for a time-constrained internal team. They needed an automated way of catching exposures without burdening their already full workload.

The solution: Automated exposure visibility

Aftra fulfilled the unforeseen gap in Svensk Cater’s security stack by providing continuous monitoring of internet exposure, employee digital footprint visibility, and user credential leaks.

What we bring to the table

Aftra helps secure their perimeter while providing an indispensable human element through a highly dedicated Customer Success Manager. Working directly alongside their team, they receive pre-analyzed insights and guided reviews that ensures they focus their efforts on what matters most.

We also provide an objective check on third-party developers. If an external vendor claims a web issue is resolved, Aftra verifies whether it is actually fixed or if it’s still popping up in scans.

Additionally, Aftra serves as a final component in their regulatory strategy:

Continuous monitoring and structured reporting give leadership concrete data to demonstrate ISO 27001 and NIS2 alignment to the executive team.

Their security journey so far

Svensk Cater’s security work was implemented in three structured phases.

Phase 1 - Framework alignment: They used ISO 27001 and NIS2 templates to guide their infrastructure upgrades, hardware replacement, and supplier analysis.

Phase 2 - User standardization & awareness: They standardized staff computers and phones across sites, while rolling out security awareness training.

Phase 3 - External monitoring & compliance: They introduced Aftra to monitor internet exposure, track user credential leaks on external services, and generate reporting for compliance management.

Reporting up the chain

To communicate progress to executive management and the board, Björn uses Aftra’s Security Score and Executive Reports. He emphasizes that the exact number of the score isn’t what’s important. Instead, they track if the score moves up or down. This gives leadership a tangible way to see progress. If the score drops, it allows Björn to justify reprioritizing work for his team to fix newly detected issues.

The work we’re proud of

To accommodate a busy IT team, Svensk Cater works with Aftra primarily through structured bi-monthly review meetings with their dedicated Customer Success Manager (CSM).

• CSM-led review meetings: During regular syncs, the CSM provides a brief analysis of current findings. The team walks through the data together and immediately generates work for the infrastructure, support, or development teams.
• Catching unresolved vendor issues: When external developers claim a fix is released, Aftra continues scanning. If the vulnerability resurfaces a month later, it provides evidence that the task needs further work.
• Addressing user policy breaches: Aftra identifies company email addresses involved in external password leaks or registered on unauthorized third-party services, allowing IT to contact critical users directly.
• Future efficiency improvement plans: To streamline this process further, Svensk Cater plans to integrate Aftra directly with their ticketing system to automate task creation as vulnerabilities surface.

Why Svensk Cater sticks with Aftra

Following a successful one-year trial, Svensk Cater renewed Aftra for three main reasons:

• Fills a specific gap: Solves internet exposure and user credential leakage issues untouched by their other security tools.
• High-value CSM support: Aftra provides dedicated account management, ensuring findings are consistently analyzed and converted into action items therefore alleviating a busy internal team.
• Enables easy board & compliance reporting: Provides clear, visual metrics that demonstrate ongoing security progress and compliance to leadership without manual preparation.

Here’s how Aftra supports Svensk Cater in short

Perimeter & user visibility: Tracks internet-facing risks and exposed employee credentials.

Vendor verification: Provides independent proof to confirm third-party fixes are fully implemented.

Compliance support: Supplies reporting metrics aligned with ISO 2700s and NIS 2 frameworks.

Structured workflow: Uses bi-monthly CSM syncs to turn findings into actionable tasks for internal and external teams.

Simple executive reporting: Uses dynamic security scoring to show management and board members whether overall security posture is improving.