Minister Opstelten wants the National Cyber Security Centre the networks of the Government 24 hours per day monitoring. He said that at a conference of the NCSC in The Hague. As a result, the threats are more likely to be noticed.
How such a network exactly would need to be designed, he left in the middle, but Will van Gemert of the ministry of Justice and Security will against Tweakers have to say that the network is intended to threats of being better able to address. “Until now we were mainly concerned with the remedy of vulnerabilities,” says Van Gemert. With a detectienetwerk should that problems can be avoided.
In the first place is the network intended to be networks of the government better to keep an eye on; companies remain in the first place responsible for the security of their networks. Still want the NCSC companies are going to help, but in what way that should happen, is not yet clear. How the ‘detectienetwerk’ designed to be, is also not fixed yet; this matter is still discussed. Possible is there special software for government has been developed.
According to Van Gemert companies to be more aware of the usefulness of detection. He named KPN as a good example: according to him, is that company is now aware of. That was not always so: in 2012, when the company was still a great hack, in which the attackers were able to monitor internet traffic of KPN’s customers to intercept. “I think the focus of that attack is still too much lag on things like uptime,” says Van Gemert.
During the conference in The Hague told Elly van den Heuvel of the NCSC that, in 2012, more security issues at the NCSC are solved than in 2011: last year there were 364, against 236 a year earlier. Or that means that there are more security issues were, or that there are less cases unsolved remained, is unclear. Want to continue the NCSC this year more people adopt. Last year, the staff of the NCSC already doubled.
Update, 13:58: A spokesman of the Ministry of Security and Justice, stresses that the departments of the central Government in the first place itself remain responsible for the security of their infrastructure. However, the NCSC in the whole a co-ordinating role. The exact plans have yet to be worked out.