skopje, macedonia may 2009

THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA

MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

www.mvzt.gov.si, e: [email protected]

Kotnikova 38, 1000 Ljubljana

p: 01 478 4600, f: 01 478 4719

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Cross-border Disaster eResponse in the eRegion

Interoperability of Information Systems in the Organizations Involved Miloš Kuret, M.Sc.

Skopje, Macedonia

May 2009

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Cross-border Disaster eResponse in the eRegionInteroperability of Information Systems in the Organizations Involved

• ..when you'll type the CIIP – even related to our narrower frame we discuss about, the disaster response, you'll receve 240 thousand links to strategic documents, studies and other works, available to the public

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• There is a 10 % to 20 % probability that telecom networks will be hit by a major breakdown in the next 10 years, with a potential global economic cost of around €193 billion. This could be caused by natural disasters, hardware failures, rupture of submarine cables (there were 50 incidents recorded in the Atlantic Ocean in 2007 alone), as well as from human actions such as terrorism or cyber attacks (such as the large-scale cyber attacks directed at Estonia in 2007), which are becoming more and more sophisticated. EU COM March30th,2009

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• it is of extreme importance that we are not only aware of the potential vulnerabilities of critical information infrastructure and the importance of its proper protection, but that we also undertake relevant and timely measures for its protection

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• .....machine has started to move also visibly in the year 2007, specially to mention the base study “Protecting Europe from large scale cyber attacks and disruptions; enhancing preparedness, security and resilience”, by 7 authors and about fifty collaborators. This expertise and later on political decision by Commission lead on to action that … (on) “30 March 2009, the European Commission adopted a communication calling for action to protect critical information infrastructures by making the EU “…more prepared for and resistant to cyber attacks and disruptions”.

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Five pillars of new CIIP policy are

• Preparedness and prevention • Detection and response • Mitigation and recovery• International cooperation• Establishment of criteria for European

critical infrastructure in the ICT sector, and

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“...the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) to support this initiative by fostering a dialogue between all actors and the necessary cooperation at the European level.”

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1. Preparedness and prevention: fostering cooperation, exchange of information and transfer of good policy practices between Member States via a European Forum. Establishing a European Public-Private Partnership for Resilience which will help businesses to share experience and information with public authorities. Both public and private actors should work together to ensure that adequate and consistent levels of prevention, detection, emergency and recovery measures are in place in all Member states

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2.Detection and response: supporting the development of a European information sharing and alert system.

3.Mitigation and recovery: stimulating stronger cooperation between the Member States via national and multinational contingency plans and regular exercises for large-scale network security incident response and disaster recovery.

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4.International cooperation: driving a Europe-wide debate to set EU priorities for the long term resilience and stability of the Internet, with a view to proposing principles and guidelines to be promoted internationally.

5.Establishment of criteria for European critical infrastructure in the ICT sector: the criteria and approaches currently vary across Member States….

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....we frequently forget the CII in some sense actually bares a twofold sense of criticality, since in many cases the information infrastructure provides support to other types of critical infrastructures like energy, transport, logistics and others....

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...finding the ENISA, as an excellent agency which tasks and roles in this field should be further enhanced…not to mention that during Slovenian presidency of the council of the EU , the mandate of ENISA has been extended for further three years, and some desires of the cession of ENISA has been blocked. We are welcoming also results of Conference on CII in Tallin, Estonia a week ago, during Czech Presidency. This all leads to the conclusions related to Pan European initiative on general CIIP, as the all European information space is already reality !

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.....we shall do our best that safe using of system will be assured for all customers according to the EU standards, no matter where in the Region collaborators or customers are...

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Thank you

Hvala lepa, dragi prijatelji

Miloš Kuret, M.Sc.Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology

Republic of Slovenia

+ 386 51 649 251

skopje, macedonia may 2009

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