4. All public bodies will adhere to this Line Action Promote innovation (Strategic) Part of Romania’s strategy for the Digital Agenda will be to give access to the public to open data and actively invest in innovation of eGovernment Services, by receiving feedback and ideas from citizens and businesses. All public bodies will adhere to this Line Action 2.2 CYBER SECURITY – INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS SECURITY 2.2.1 Introduction Preamble Trust and security in public services is national priority for the Romanian government and is the underlying requirement for electronic infrastructure of data networks, electronic services and communications. The occurrence of cyber incidents is mainly determined by human or procedural reasons. Thus, some of the incidents were identified as the main cause of the lack of consistent security policies to protect data that is collected, handled, processed and stored by computer networks.. Cyber Security Definition Cyber Security is defined as "the state of normality that results after provisioning proactive and reactive measures that ensure confidentiality, integrity, availability, authenticity and non-repudiation of electronic information, of private and public resources and services in the cybernetic environment. These reactive and proactive measures can include policies, concepts, standards, security guides, risk management, training and awareness activities, implementation of technical solution to project the cybernetic infrastructure, identity management, outcome management.” 2 2.2.2 European context At EU level, the European Commission is funding several projects to protect critical infrastructure information via the CIIP initiative, for border security and resilience of critical information and communications infrastructure by stimulating and supporting the development of national and multinational capabilities in this area. At the beginning of 2013, published a proposal on European Cyber Security Strategy was published, for a directive concerning measures to ensure a high common level of network and information security across the Union. A new Cyber Security Strategy was developed by the European Commission which comprises internal market, justice and home affairs and foreign policy angles of the cyberspace issues. The Strategy is accompanied by the technical legislative proposal by the European Commission's Directorate General Connect to strengthen the security of information systems in the EU and is comprised of 4 major priorities: 2 http://www.cert-ro.eu/files/doc/StrategiaDeSecuritateCiberneticaARomaniei.pdf Page 45 of 172

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