4 Conclusions and Recommendations
To protect national cyber space, fulfil the undertakings of the Slovak Republic as a member state of
the EU and NATO and to fulfil other international undertakings, on the basis of experience from other
member states, in order to optimize the collaboration between public administration bodies, as well
as between public administration and the private and academic sector and in the interest of removing
duplicities, the Slovak Republic has decided to adopt a conceptual material for the area of cyber security
at a national level in the form of this Concept.
The Concept is the basic and starting document for the subsequent formulation of regulations,
standards, methodology, rules, security policies and other tools necessary to provide cyber security.
Since it is a defining element of the security environment of the Slovak Republic and a subsystem of
national security, it is necessary to evaluate and build it up continuously. The Slovak Republic perceives
the area of cyber security as an important part of the everyday use of information and communication
technologies; this is why it will stress the execution of measures aimed at securing it.
The Slovak Republic will regularly evaluate and assess international law, international treaties,
as well as trends and standards in the field of cyber security and will implement these and apply
them when adopting legislation in the area of cyber security. The Slovak Republic intends to actively
participate in the preparation of law, standards and norms in the institutions of the EU, NATO and other
international organizations.
On the basis of the adopted proposals of the Concept, it is recommended to prepare and submit to the
sessions of the Security Council of the Slovak Republic and of the Government of the Slovak Republic:
1. A draft Cyber Security Act that will integrally cover the area of cyber security.
2. A Proposal of an Action Plan for the Implementation of the Cyber Security Concept of the
Slovak Republic for 2015 – 2020 that will determine a material, time and financial plan
for the implementation of the Concept. This document will include a material, time and
financial plan of tasks for the individual central state administration bodies in the scope of
their powers and competences within the basic security areas of operation of the state. The
implementation of these tasks will serve to achieve the fulfilment of measures of the Concept
in the application of basic principles of cyber security. A framework proposal of tasks is
included in Annex no. 4 to the Concept.
In order to define, stabilize and use unified terminology related to cyber security, it is
recommended to:
3. Discuss the terminology used in the Concept in the Cross-sectoral Terminological Commission
of the Security Council of the Slovak Republic and subsequently to publish it in the
Terminological Dictionary of Crisis Management.
For non-confidential facts, similarly to the definitions in regulations for confidential facts, it is
recommended to establish formally, in an adequate scope:
4. Requirements for physical, building, personnel and information security, as well as conditions
of security of technical and system resources and cipher protection of information.
In order to create conditions for systematic collaboration between the public administration,
academic institutions, scientific sector and the private sector on ensuring cyber security in the
Slovak Republic, it is recommended to create, at a national level:
5. A formal cooperation platform.
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