E-SPEAIT Week 10

 

Estonia has been recognized as a country that has great cybersecurity. A global heavyweight in cybersecurity even. Prior to 2007 attacks, cyber attacks weren’t takes seriously as an actual threat to the state or citizens. After the attack there was much to learn from the experience, which helped Estonia to get somewhat of a lead in the field. Ten years after the event, Estonia had started to advise other countries about cybersecurity. The country has developed training and cooperation with Luxembourg, Austria, South Korea and NATO.

According to Klaid Mägi, former head of the Incident Response Department, Estonia’s preparedness to handle cyber crises has significantly increased over the past decade. The country has created intrusion detection and protection systems, practiced cooperation with public and private institutions, significantly contributed to the awareness of users and is participating in international co-operations. This shows that the technological aspect of „Mitnick formula“ has certainly improved. Since this statement from Klaid Mägi is from 2017, I’m certain that those systems have gotten even better.

Locked Shields is an annual scenario-based real-time network defence exercise, which focuses on training security experts who are working on national IT systems. In this event teams are have to maintain networks and services of a fictional country. Including incidents handling and reporting, solving forensic challenges, legal and strategic communication. Mägi also said that Estonia invests into the security of essential services and e-governance and systematically raises public cyber security awareness and competence. This can also be seen in schools. More schools are teaching about behaviour online and possible threats on the web. In my school I only heard about such topic in gymnasium and it was more of a survey than learning. It’s great to see this being improved, considering that younger kids are online and should have some knowledge about this.

Since the use of computers and overall internet has significantly grown, and continues to grow, there have been changes regarding rules. More users means more people are trying to achieve something by breaking the rules or finding loopholes. This way policies and rules can be improved.

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