this Alicante County Council It keeps the hotline open for the supply of firewall equipment to municipalities in the province with a population of up to 20,000. Juan de Dios Navarro, MP for Innovation and Digital Agenda, this Wednesday morning, together with technicians in the region, oversaw part of the teams that will promote measures to protect the technological assets, hardware, software of the consulates in the state. and stored data as a product of their daily work. This initiative is part of the state cybersecurity project that the state agency has developed to create protection mechanisms against cyber attacks, following the guidelines of European and national organizations such as the National Cryptology Center.
Priority
Fighting cybercrime is a priority for Diputación. The proof of this is that it detects and stops on average. 3,500 hacking attempts This has led the institution to strengthen investments and mechanisms to combat cybercrime in both the Provincial Assembly and provincial municipalities in recent years. This is a phenomenon that causes real headaches for the Administration as a whole because it is trending upward rather than decreasing. If an attempt is made to intrude into the provincial network that served dozens of people a year ago. town halls Their daily count was about 2,000, they have now reached 175%. The instability created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine may be one of the keys that partially explains this increase. In fact, cyber attacks from the country led by Vladimir Putin have quadrupled.
If 1,200 attacks were detected in June 2021 russian region (432 very serious), in the same month of 2022, the figure rose to 5,800 (997 very serious), according to provincial agency data. In addition, there has been a huge increase in the last 30 days: 34,800 attacks from the same source, of which 5,700 are classified as very serious.
secure channels
The need to establish secure channels within oneself To manage Given that data and telematics processes managed by municipalities are growing at a dizzying pace, it becomes more and more important in its relationship with the managed. With this, institutions manage a large amount of information about citizens that could be used to commit countless crimes and frauds if it fell into the wrong hands. And not only that. this digitization It motivates more and more control of essential services such as drinking water networks, power grids, traffic light signals or waste collection through telematic programs. Therefore, it is clear that an intrusion can cause real chaos in a matter of seconds. In fact, there are several examples in the province. Mutxamel City Council has suffered one of the most serious cyber attacks in this council. A “ransomware” virus blocked the organization’s computer network and encrypted all information.
Source: Informacion
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