National Security Authority (NSA) has put together recommendations for Slovak athletes and team members, who are about to represent the country on the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The main concern of NSA is the team bringing their own electronics to the country. However, more steps are needed to keep Slovaks safe – before, during…
European Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell has presented a new EU Cybersecurity Strategy. As a key component of Shaping Europe’s Digital Future, the Recovery Plan for Europe and the EU Security Union Strategy, the Strategy will bolster Europe’s collective resilience against cyber threats and help to ensure that all…
Scientists and doctors are currently under constant, graduating pressure. World is waiting for its first, vital vaccine against COVID-19. Their work is obviously getting loads of unwanted attention among hackers. And this is what this year’s participants of Guardians 2020 IT competition stand against. The 4th edition, symptomatically called Corona Edition, is hosted by Binary…
October is the European Cyber Security Month during which a campaign is organized under the auspices of the European Commission, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) and their partners in order to raise interest in cyber security within the European Union and to raise awareness in this area. Awareness activities include…
On 7 October 2019 the National Cyber Security Centre SK-CERT has published The Vulnerability Reporting Guideline. This guideline is a tool for security researchers, software developers, hardware manufacturers as well as for the general public. It provides a detailed procedure and recommended steps for reporting newly discovered vulnerabilities and also a procedure for reporting already existing vulnerabilities found…
National Security Authority established the National Cybersecurity Centre SK-CERT by transformation of the National Unit SK-CERT. By establishing the National Cybersecurity Centre SK-CERT (www.sk-cert.sk) the Authority performs the task of the Action Plan of Cybersecurity Concept Implementation of the Slovak Republic within the years 2015 -2020. “Building the capabilities of the Slovak Republic…
A High Level Table-Top Exercise BlueOLEX2019 Joined Representatives of Member States in Response to Critical Cybersecurity Situation On 2 and 3 July 2019 Paris was hosting a high-level Table-Top exercise BlueOLEx 2019 based on Commission Recommendation on Coordinated response to large-scale cross-border cybersecurity incidents and crises. The exercise was organized by French L’Agence Nationale…
On 15 May 2019 the National Unit SK-CERT of the National Security Authority took part in the international exercise CyberSOPEx. The exercise organized by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) was aimed at enhancing of coordination and cooperation of EU Member States in handling of large scale cybersecurity incidents which is one of…
The National Unit SK-CERT of the National Security Authority conducted the first of a series of the National Table-Top exercises on 14 May 2019. The exercise was named “A Suspicious Mail is Just the Beginning”. The Table-Top exercises are a kind of non-technical exercises focusing on decision-making, as well as practising and testing of own procedures and…
A few days ago the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) published the Global Cyber Security Index (GCI) for the year 2018. The GCI is published annually. The Slovak Republic moved up 36 places in the GCI compared to the year 2017 and took 45th place. The Global Cyber Security Index in the framework of cybersecurity focuses on:…