The National Cyber Security Centre opens today, officially opened its doors. The platform must have the ict security of the government and of the “vital systems” guarantee. Governments and companies have in the platform will work together.
In the centre is Govcert.nl included, up to and including last year, the co-ordination of ict security for the government to take over. The National Cyber Security Centre should be ‘knowledge and expertise’ bundle, and a co-ordinating role to play in threats and incidents, says the National co-Ordinator for Counterterrorism and Security Erik Akerboom, in an interview with Tweakers.net.
“The centre will have three tasks,” he says. “We want to be in the first place, the expertise to bring together.” Thus, knowledge about hackaanvallen be shared. It concerns not only the government but also to companies with ‘vital information systems’. Which companies are at the Centre go to connect, it is not yet confirmed, but likely that companies such as KPN and Microsoft. Further, under national government agencies, the NCSC session. The AIVD, the police, the Public Ministry and the Ministry of Defence to the centre, so that does not is intended, for example for municipalities. “It comes to systems whose disruption the society can disrupt,” says Akerboom. Also the small and medium enterprises has so little in the centre to search; rather, it is to large businesses in the energy sector.
“In addition, we want the response to problems strengthen,” says Akerboom. According to him, would the NCSC, for example, the reporting obligation for data breaches. Companies with data breaches, these must then report to the center, then expertise may provide in solving them. The question is, according to Akerboom still how big companies have to be vulnerabilities to report. Finally, the NCSC to ensure that crises such as the DigiNotar-affair to be better governed. Or the centre in the practice, rather than lead, such as, for example, the police in an evacuation, is unclear.
In the Cyber Security View of the government that was recently released, called the predecessor of the NCSC, Govcert.nl, smartphones, and storage of data in network environment are the largest risk to digital security.