Within the bilateral cooperation, the Authority closely cooperates with the National Agency for Security of Information Systems (ANSSI) responsible for the area of cybersecurity in France. The task of ANSSI is to ensure coordinated and proactive reaction to cybersecurity incidents. The importance of mutual cooperation is proved by the fact that the Authority was provided…

The National Unit SK-CERT has received on May 5th 2018 the second grade membership within the TI (Trusted Introducer Service) – status Accredited means full membership in the community of unites for cybersecurity incidents handling and international recognition. Further information on the membership in TI is available in the following link: https://www.trusted-introducer.org/directory/teams/sk-cert.html This event together…

There are eight new countries accrued to the Global Index of Cybersecurity NCSI. One of them was the Slovak Republic which became its new leader. This leadership reflect the high level of effort invested into the cybersecurity development in the recent years. Slovakia reached the maximum scores in seven out of twelve evaluated indicators and…

On March 9, 2018, there was published the Act on cybersecurity in the Collection of Laws under the number 69/2018. This is the first legal norm governing the cybersecurity within the Slovak Republic. It comes into force on April 1, 2018. The Act establishes minimum security and notification requirements with the aim to provide cybersecurity…

On January 24th and 25th 2018 the conference SecOps Europe 2018 took place in Budapest. During the conference there was an international exercise for national CERT units in the area of cybersecurity. Involved teams had to pass various tasks during simulated attack including OS Linux hardening, malware identification and removal of access tools of an…