Due to the constant growth of the number of online services that public and private
sectors provide to the citizens as well as to other legal entities, safe cyberspace of
Montenegro is becoming one of national priorities.
Smart phones, social media, systems for industrial production control, numerous medical devices controlled by information systems are only
some of the examples of putting technology to
use, or the benefits it provides.
According to estimates, there are about 8 billion of inter-connected devices in the world. It is
estimated that by 2020, the number of devices
would exceed 20 billion, which speaks for the degree of integration of physical systems with the
computer systems, resulting in greater effectiveness, accuracy, greater economic benefits, but
also more serious adverse consequences in case
of a cyber attack.
Bearing in mind increasing integration of cyber
and physical systems and adverse consequences which could be caused by a compromised
cyber system, cyber security and its developed
national, regional and international architectures
play a crucial role.
The accelerated development of inter-connected,
innovative technologies must also be followed by
a fast development of cyber-security solutions,
namely the protection from a wide spectrum of
threats and that certainly represents a challenge
to which all of us must respond with joint forces.
gro is exempt from it. We witness an increasing
number of cyber incidents which affect Montenegro, through the recent ransomware campaigns,
DDoS attacks against the public infrastructure,
various online frauds, etc. Year after year, the
number of these cyber incidents is significantly
increasing.
We must be aware that the threats to the IC infrastructure which may threaten its availability, privacy and integrity may also affect the functioning
of the society as a whole. Countries, international
organisations, security companies, and various
other entities are constantly developing and implementing new security mechanisms, however,
simultaneously there is a process in which cyber
criminals are inventing innovative and sophisticated techniques to bypass them.
With regard to the development of information
technologies and cyber security, according to the
UN report i.e. International Telecommunication
Union (ITU) report called “Global Cybersecurity
Index1 2017”, Montenegro ranks 71st out of 193
member states. However, due to daily occurrence of new threats, our efforts with regard to cyber security must follow that pace as well.
Undoubtedly, cyber security is a challenge of the
modern age and, as such, not even Montene1
Global Cybersecurity Index 2017.
Link: https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-d/opb/str/D-STR-GCI.01-2017-PDF-E.pdf
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