The presentation is dedicated to newly approved legislation on e-Government, especially its practical use in electronic processes and public administration services in the Slovak Republic. 

CSIRT – Special Unit in digital world

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Did you know that in Slovakia there is a special unit for elimination of cyber attacks? Its name is CSIRT. Come to take a look at her!

Executive summary:
The presentation will briefly inform about draft law on information security and its necessity for working of Special unit for solving of computer security incidents – CSIRT.SK. It will deliver a short view on types of solved computer incidents and state their numbers, actual trends in attacks on public administration institutions and finally indicate challenges the unit is facing today and which impede effective reaction in elimination of these attacks. 

At present, a broad discussion of the e-government bill, drafted  and submitted by the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic, is ongoing. Many individuals and professional organizations are commenting on the bill. The aim of the presentation is to shed a different light on the drafted bill – clarify the purposes intended by the bill and explain why the bill is compiled in individual parts publicly.  
The lecturers were members of the work group of the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic, which has drafted the bill, therefore they will present not only the basic parts of the bill but also a broader context and reasons of submitted motions and explain the impact on the existing situation and consequences of passing the bill.

The aim of this presentation is to familiarize the broader public with the main concept of legislative environment creation for information security in the SR. Contribution is linked to main aims and priorities stated by National strategy for information security in the SR from the 2008 and Action plan for information security in the SR adopted by the government in the 2010 as well as other important strategic documents. Taking into consideration progressivity of this field and significant time shift from the formulation of aforementioned materials, this presentation will broaden or amend their scope taking into consideration new requirements transposed from EU environment. It has to do mainly with the development of essential conditions for securing public administration information systems, determination of obligatory security requirements pertaining to other information and communication technologies of digital space in the SR that communicate with public administration information systems in the extend needed for its secure functioning.