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Event
Monday, 21 May 2012 - 

The Cyber Security Forum Programme, which has been finalised by the Advisory Committee of several  leading International Experts also has  a pre-Forum Workshop on SCADA & Industrial Control Systems – Security Insights that will be led by Eric Byers and Paul Dorey, two leading Committee Members.

There will also be an exhibition alongside the Cyber Security Forum at which the most important companies in the industry will present new products and  commercial solutions to Forum  attendees. 
 
Vendors have an important part to play in providing  solutions to the problems that the Energy & Utilities sectors experience from cyber intervention and its detrimental causes. Consequently a special day has been set aside...
Event
Tuesday, 22 May 2012 - 

Nations across the world are allocating more resources to protect themselves from increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. In the UK alone, the government recently announced an injection of £650 million ($1.03 billion) into boosting the nation's cyber defence systems. Faced with a crippling shortage of ‘Cyber Warriors’, investment into training for cyber security is increasing as both public and private sectors scramble to defend their critical networks and operations. ITEC is a well-established event in the military training and simulation community already. It is recognised as the leading European event for this market, and it has been running successfully for over 20 years. In the past it has focussed on training and simulation for...

Event
Thursday, 19 April 2012 - 

GCSEC hosts in Rome ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) working groups workshop, on 19th and 20th April 2012.

ENISA is the Agency for cyber security issues of the European Union, working for the EU Institutions and Member States.

Working groups are on European public-private partnership for resilience (EP3R) and national PPP's: the meeting will have work sessions, presentation of international good practices and case studies.

Andrea Rigoni, GCSEC Director-General, will welcome the participants and will present GCSEC model for public-private partnership.

More info about ENISA on http://www.enisa.europa.eu/

News

A group of hackers protesting against SOPA could attack today the DNS, potentially blocking the entire Internet. 

The Domain Name System (DNS) is in charge of maintaining the Domain Name space and it provides the services mapping domain names on the correspondent IP addresses. Without this service it would almost be impossible to reach any web site or to access to most internet services. DNS can be considered, at the same time, a service, a protocol, an information infrastructure and an Internet critical infrastructure.
 
The core of the DNS in constituted by more or less 200 root servers, spread across the world. They are responsible for the resolution of the top level domain addresses. They are those knowing for example the IP...
Blog

As part of their Lisbon Summits of November 2010, both the EU and NATO prioritized securing cyberspace as key to the collective security of Europe and of the alliance. Separately, each organisation is making incremental progress, but if the EU and NATO combine the power and resources of both organizations, they could achieve a far more effective response to cyber threats.
At the end of September 2011 both the EU and NATO announced plans for their respective incident response centres. The NATO Cyber Incident Response Center (NCIRC) should obtain full operational capability for 24/7 incident detection and response capabilities across NATO organisations and infrastructures by the end of 2012. It took 10 years to achieve this vision (originally conceived as...

Event
Tuesday, 10 April 2012 - 

GCSEC General Director Andrea Rigoni will participate as speaker at Georgetown University’s Second Annual International Engagement on Cyber Conference on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 from 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. in Lohrfink Auditorium. This event is designed to promote a dialogue among cyber security experts from across the globe to further advance progress in addressing the most challenging threats to global cyber security.  Speakers and participants represent diverse disciplines and various national and international perspectives. Drawing on the experience of government practitioners, industry representatives and academic scholars, this conference will allow participants to compare notes and share...

Blog

Recently GCSEC have been invited to join the European SCADA and Control System Information Exchange, invitation that our Center was more than honored to accept. Being the security on Industrial Control Systems a matter of extreme relevance at European level, for the safety of citizens, GCSEC, in the coming years, will fully support this initiative, working side to side with the EUROSCSIE members to establish a strong information sharing community for a more secure and safe Europe.

Today the process control network of most Critical Installations is integrated with broader information and communication systems, including the company business network. Most maintenance services on process control equipment are remotely performed. There has been a qualitative leap in the last years regarding the need to safeguard those installations against malicious activities by actors as terrorism, organized crime or violent extremism. The paradox is that the more ICT...

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GCSEC gives its contribute to strategic project on Italian Digital Agenda GCSEC has sent to the Ministry of Economic Development (Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico) its proposal for the strategic project on Italian Digital Agenda: the document aims to contribute to the...
UK Cyber Security national strategy 650 is not a random number, is not connected to kabala or the New Year Lottery. It is the synthesis of UK effort, to develop a concrete response to cyber threats for the next 4 years.

Events

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Nations across the world are allocating more resources to protect themselves from increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.
Monday, 21 May 2012
The Cyber Security Forum Programme, which has been finalised by the Advisory Committee of several  leading International Experts also has  ...
Thursday, 19 April 2012
GCSEC hosts in Rome ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) working groups workshop, on 19th and 20th April 2012. ENISA...