SUMMARY OF ANNEXES ANNEX 1: REPORT ON THE FULFILMENT OF THE ACTION PLAN FOR THE NATIONAL CYBER SECURITY STRATEGY FOR 2015 TO 2020 The year 2020 was the closing year for the fulfilment of the Action Plan for the National Cyber Security Strategy of the Czech Republic for 2015 to 2020 (hereinafter the ‘Action Plan’). A substantial part of the tasks were eval­ uated as accomplished or being fulfilled. The number of ongoing tasks has grown compared to the previous year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These tasks were only partially accomplished because of the epidemio­ logical measures, which significantly affected activities requiring cooperation. For example, the ongoing tasks in the area of cyber exercises whose performance was either cancelled or postponed were assessed as partially accomplished. The situation was similar in the area of educational activities, some of which were directly cancelled, postponed, or transformed into online form. The fulfilment of tasks that were wholly or partially accom­plished in the past was also evaluated. One of these was the creation of an automated platform for sharing information about cyber threats under the competence of the NÚKIB. The platform was being developed during 2020 as part of the Non-public Web project, beta testing of which has been in progress since the beginning of 2021. Since mid-February 2021, enti­ ties regulated under the ACS as well as partners of the Government CERT have been gradually connected to it. Chart 31: Evaluation of the tasks from the Action Plan for 2020 76 60 40 20 8 1 0 ACCOMPLISHED/ BEING FULFILLED NOT ACCOMPLISHED ANNEX 2: EVALUATION OF THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE OBJECTIVES FROM THE NATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR 2020 In the area of research and development, the NÚKIB released the National Research and Development Plan, aiming at identifying the key research topics for the develop­ment of the security system of the Czech Republic. It includes the following topics: 1. Only one of the assigned tasks had a fixed deadline in the given year, namely the Full Provision of Cyber Defence of the Czech Republic through the cooperation by the NCOC,19 the NCSC, the national CERT, and other CERT/CSIRT-type workplaces. This task, managed by Military Intelligence, was evaluated as partially accom­ plished because of the postponing of the approval of necessary legislative changes required for the fullfledged cyber defence of the Czech Republic, and its complete accomplishment has been postponed to 2022. 19 PARTIALLY ACCOMPLISHED/ BEING FULFILLED Priority research topics shall be incorporated in public tenders and national and inter­ national research, development and in­ novation support programme calls. At the end of 2020, the NÚKIB started collecting information to draw up a list of research needs in order to submit them under the Programme for Security Research for State Purposes for 2022 – 2027. Under this objective, the NÚKIB supported the efforts of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic to strengthen research and development cooperation in cyber security and defence. EVALUATION: Considering the short-term hori­ zon, it cannot yet be evaluated whether the The NCOC is the successor to the National Centre of Cyberspace Operations (NCCO). Summary of Annexes 35