The perception of the average social media user regarding the Croatian industry is that it – does not exist. The industry is heavy, gloomy, and dirty, overshadowed by a chimney that emits thick smoke, obscuring the horizon and polluting the environment. Industry exists only where at least a thousand sweaty men and/or middle-aged women work, all with vacant stares. Industry belongs in apocalyptic scenarios where the main character resembles Alija Sirotanović; everything else is a lie that these commentators have seen through long ago.
What distorts their image happened more than thirty years ago. First, there was war, then the privatization of the 1990s that decimated Croatian industry, after which services, especially tourism, took over as the engine of domestic development, and the little industry that remained was in service of that activity. And we should not blame social media users for having a half-empty glass and not seeing clearly that we have not lost everything. To shed light on the matter, we decided to dedicate this week’s topic to the Croatian industry.
Allurity, a European group of cybersecurity service providers, has acquired the Croatian cybersecurity company Infigo IS. This news reached all domestic business media last week and was the reason for our conversation with Infigo’s management members Saša Jušić, Hrvoje Šegudović, and Bojan Ždrnja, whom we caught on a rainy Monday in their office in New Zagreb. With this acquisition, Infigo’s leaders will enter the ownership structure of the Swedish group, and they revealed to us what prompted the acquisition, what the current challenges in the cybersecurity sector are in Croatia and the world, and what their plans for the future are.
