On June 6 through 10 a delegation from the Digital Management Agency of Georgia were visiting the National Cyber Security Centre under the Ministry of National Defence – familiarized with the cyber security situation in Lithuania and improved expertise.
“Lithuania’s progress on ensuring national critical infrastructure is safe in cyberspace is a useful and inspiring example that can be helpful to such states as Georgia with strengthening their capabilities, managing cyber security risks and responding to cyber-incidents properly,” says Jonas Skardinskas, Director of the Cyber Security Management Department and current acting Director of the National Cyber Security Centre.
The guests received briefings from the National Cyber Security Centre staff on cyber-incident management, CERT activity principles and processes, the procedure of security and vulnerability assessment in the Lithuanian critical information infrastructure, the responsible vulnerability disclosure process provided with legal basis in Lithuania last year, and the partnership between public and private sectors. Lithuanian MoD experts introduced the guests to the legal basis off cybersecurity in Lithuania and ongoing international projects.
The guests visited Kaunas to familiarize with technical cyber security and cyber threat intelligence measures the National Cyber Security Centre had and with the activity of the Regional Cyber Defence Centre (subsidiary of the National Cyber Security Centre) where Georgian cyber security experts have been part of the team for nearly a year.
The National Cyber Security Centre and the Ministry for Digital and Economic Affair is implementing the European Union Twining programme for strengthening cyber security capacity in Georgia, which the Georgian delegation has visited Lithuania as part of.
Twining is an instrument for cooperation between institutions among EU member states and partner nations. It links together expertise in public sector of EU member states and beneficiary countries to draw the beneficiary’s state management organisations to closer to EU standards and achieve concrete mandatory results from this activity.
Photo credit: National Cyber Security Centre
