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successful reporting and delivery of information on the state of cybersecurity in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, participation in the work of the interministerial working
group assembled based on Permanent Council decision 1039, participating in seven
communications checks and hosting a subregional training on cybersecurity and ICT
security in May 2019, among others. Also, we have supported OSCE by providing
our capacities and knowledge in the organization of several local conferences and
workshops.
Also, Bosnia and Herzegovina has been included in the regional project,
“Capacity Building for Criminal Justice Practitioners Combating Cybercrime and
Cyber-enabled Crime in South-Eastern Europe”. The project was financed by the
Governments of Germany and the United States of America and it is realized by the
OSCE Transnational Threats Department in cooperation with representatives of the
countries from the region (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kos ovo, 1
Serbia and North Macedonia) and OSCE field missions. The main aim of the project
is the education and training of experts working on cyber and cyberrelated organized
crime cases. The project was ongoing in the period 2017–2019, and it contributed to
the development of a comprehensive general strategic framework for solving
questions of cybercrime and threats to cybersecurity, as well as stren gthening the
existing capacities for fighting against cybercrime as well as for responding to
cybersecurity threats. The Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina had a
coordination role for Bosnia and Herzegovina in this project.
The Ministry of Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina is conducting activities in
order to have an efficient and sustainable cybersecurity system in its jurisdiction by
2023. So far, the Ministry adopted the Strategy for Cyber Security for the defence
sector on 4 October 2017. A detailed implementation plan for this strategy was
adopted on 27 December 2017. Security goals focus on the prevention of security
incidents, the response to security incidents, the education and certification of staff
working in the area of cybersecurity in the defence sector of Bosnia and Herzegovina
and an increase in the awareness of end users in terms of the security of
communication and information systems. Aiming at implementation of the above mentioned points, the Ministry of Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina has already
drafted or adopted certain implementation documents.
Also, the Ministry of Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina has started the process
of establishing a computer emergency response team for the Ministry of Defence of
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Ministry of Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina has the obligation, within
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Partnership for Peace, to implement partner
goal G7300 on cyberdefence, which requires: (a) the adoption of policies, procedures
and other documents in order to have visible cyberdefence integration into the
operations and processes of operational planning and to have international regulations
in cyberspace, security measures for risk exchange and estimation of cyberthreats
between national and international bodies in the field of cybersecurity implemented;
(b) an established Computer Emergency Response Team; (c) the establishment of
capabilities for ensuring the confidentiality, availability and authenticity of
information and information systems of the Ministry of Defence of Bosnia and
Herzegovina and the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegov ina; (d) the adoption of
programmes for the education and training of experts in the field and end users, as
well; (e) the adoption of education programmes through the organization of national
cyberexercises and seminars, as well as the participation of representatives of staff of
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