IFS/2013/329397

Presented by:Besnik LIMAJTeam Leader

EU funded Enhancing Cyber Security

Project

19/09/2014

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PROJECTSYNOPSIS 1

PROJECT FUNDED BY:

EUROPEAN UNION’S INSTRUMENT CONTRIBUTING TO STABILITY AND PEACE

LAUNCHED: JANUARY 2014 – DURATION 24 MONTHS

TOTAL BUDGET: 1,485,000 Euros

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CONSORTIUM 2

CONSORTIUM

Adetef is the international technical assistance consultancy agency and operator for French ministries in charge of Economy and Finance, Industry, Sustainable Development and State Reform.It takes up and disseminates financial and economic best practices, providing national governments and public authorities with cutting-edge technical expertise from French officials and public sector experts.

CIVI.POL Conseil is the in-house consulting and service company of the French Ministry of Interior, and its mandated body for international assistance.Since its founding in 2001, CIVI.POL Conseil has been providing services in the areas of the French Ministry of Interior.

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PROJECTPARTNER

COUNTRIES 3

FYROM – MOLDOVA – KOSOVO - AZERBAIJAN

REGIONS:

East Europe and Western Balkans

PARTNER COUNTRIES:The Former Yugoslav Republic of

Macedonia, Kosovo,

and Moldova

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OBJECTIVEAND

EXPECTEDRESULTS 4

OVERALL OBJECTIVE:

increase the security and resilience

of ICT networks in the partner Countries

by

building and training local capacities

to

adequately prevent, respond to cyber attacks and/or accidental

failures

EXPECTED RESULTS TO BE ACHIEVED

1.Creation and/or the development of National Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) and 24/7 Contact Points;

2. Adoption of a National Cyber Security Strategy (NCSS)

3.Development of effective international cooperation

COMPONENTS

COMPONENT 1: Cyber security strategies and awareness raising

COMPONENT 2: CERT Capacity Building

COMPONENT 3: Enhancing Cooperation: PPPs and International cooperation

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PROJECTSACTIVITY

AREAS 5

COMPONENT 1CYBER SECURITY STRATEGIES AND AWARENESS RAISING

CYBER SECURITY STRATEGY:ACTIVITY AREA 1.1. - Advice on creation and adoption of National Cyber Security Strategies (including advice on policy, financial and legal implications)

AWARENESS RAISING: ACTIVITY AREA 1.2. - Advice on raising awareness on cyber security including organisation of national and international workshops for decision makers and a closing conference

COMPONENT 2ENHANCING CERTs CAPACITY

ACTIVITY AREA 2.1. - Support on establishment/strengthening of operational CERTs units (including inter alia advice on developing effective cyber security incident reporting; Skills training enhancement)

ACTIVITY AREA 2.2. - Facilitation of joint cyber security exercises

ACTIVITY AREA 2.3. - Advice on development of specific curriculum/training course for CERT officers

COMPONENT 3ENHANCING COOPERATION: PPPs AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

PPPsACTIVITY AREA 3.1. - Enhance cooperation between government and private sector on Cyber Security and advice on creation of new flexible and updated academic curricula including computer science (CS), and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degrees

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIONACTIVITY AREA 3.2. – Foster cooperation with international bodies as ENISA in the field of cyber security

ACTIVITY AREA 3.3. - Facilitation of participation in international events on cyber security for the CERTs and 24/7 points of contact .;

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ACTIVITY STEPS

on CERT’s 6

ADVICE ON CREATION OF NATIONAL CERT’S

TASKS:

• Identify the right stakeholders during the Paris Workshop in April - COMPLETED•Review of the current situation in FYROM and KOSOVO – COMPLETED

•Chose the right services: In the early stage CERT will focus mainly on providing some of the core-services as:

• Alerts and warnings• Incident handling• Incident analysis• Incident response support• Incident response coordination• Announcements as Proactive services;

•Define communication approach (SWOT/PEST Analysis);

•Define Mission statements;

•Develop organisational structure;

•Coordinate with direct partner location of the CERT (in accordance with the country legislation);

•Help to make CERT in these two countries operational. Establish process flows and operational/technical procedures for delivering core CERT services as:

• Alerts and Warnings;• Announcements;• Incident Handling;

•Establish cooperation with ENISA and other CERTs in the region;

•Draft recommendations, action plans and road map.

ADVICE ON STRENGTHENING OF NATIONAL CERT’S

TASKS:

• Identify the right stakeholders - COMPLETED

•Review of the current situation in Moldova - COMPLETED;

• Interview relevant staff of CERT - COMPLETED;

• Conduct needs assessment of further training - COMPLETED

• Review of present CERT operational rules - COMPLETED;

• Identify which services and trainings must be provided in priority;

• Implement these recommendations;

FACILITATION OF

TWO - CYBER SECURITY EXERCISES

Month

14Month

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METHODOLOGY

FACILITATION OFPARTICIPATION IN RELEVANT CYBER SECURITY MEETINGS

OTHER TAILOR MADE ACTIVITIES BASED ON SPECIFIC COUNTRY NEEDS

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COUNTRYFOCAL POINTS 7

COUNTRY FOCAL POINTSTHE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

National team’s representatives: The Cyber Crime Unit – MoI;Ministry of Information Society and AdministrationAgency for Electronic Communications - (CERT)Ministry of Interior University, MASIT ...

COUNTRY FOCAL POINTSKOSOVO

National team’s representatives:Office of the Prime MinisterAgency of Information SocietyThe Cyber Crime Unit – MoI;Regulatory Authority of Electronic and Postal Communications – C.E.R.T.Ministry of JusticeUniversity

COUNTRY FOCAL POINTSMOLDOVA

National team’s representatives: CERT – GOV – MDMinistry of Internal AffairsOffice of the Prosecutor GeneralNational Center for Protection of Personal DataUniversity

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CERT’s in PARTNER

COUNTRIES 8

FYROM - MACEDONIA

LOCATION: Agency for Electronic Communications

LEGAL FRAMEWORK: Ministry for Information Society and Administration in coordination with AEC – in a process of ammending the Law on Electronic Communications – Indicative expected ammendment of the Law – December 2014

STAFF: AEC – 140 Employees - CERT – up to 5 persons

Proposed MKD- CERT implementation phases are:

FYROM - MACEDONIA

Phase 3

•Reactive services1.Security audits and

assessments

•Proactive services1.Forensic analysis

•Security quality management services

1.Risk analysisSecurity consulting

Phase 1

•Reactive services1. Incident response

and handling (both remote and onsite)

2. Alerts and warnings

3. Vulnerability response

•Proactive services

1. Announcements and basic awareness

2. Education Training

Phase 2

• Reactive services

1. Incident response coordination

2. Vulnerability response coordination

3. Thread analysis• Proactive

services1. Vulnerability

analysis2. Technology

watch• Security quality1. Advanced

awareness2. Education

Training

KOSOVO

LOCATION: Regulatory Authority for Electronic and Postal Communications (RAEPC)

LEGAL FRAMEWORK: Regulated with the • Law on Electronic Communications No. 04/L-109 – November 2012 and• Electronic Comm. Sectoral Policy Digital Agenda for Kosovo ‐2013 2020‐

STAFF: RAEPC – 39 Employees - CERT – up to 5 persons and by the end of 2016 – in KOS-CERT are planning to work 8-10 people

Current situation:

Job advert published:

By end of September 2014 KOS-CERT – 2 people should be employed

• High officer for Network Security and • Officer for Service developing

Services

Basic KOS-CERT services (2014-2015):

Reactive services• Incident analysis

and response • Alerts and warnings

Proactive services• Announcements • Training

KOSOVO

Mobile Penetration rates in Kosovo:

Broadband Penetration rates:

MOLDOVA

CERT-GOV-MD is a governmental computer security incident response team founded within State Enterprise “Center of Special Telecommunications”.CERT-GOV-MD's constituency are public authorities and critical information infrastructure providers of the Republic of Moldova.

Host organization

Government

Constituency

State Chancellery

S.E. Center of Special Telecommunications

Cyber Security Center CERT-GOV-MD

Public Authorities

Critical information infrastructure providers

ABOUT CERT-GOV-MD

MOLDOVA

Reactive services:

- Alerts and warnings;- Incident handling; - Incident response support;- Incident response

coordination.

CERT-GOV-MD

Proactive services:- Announcements;

- Security-related information dissemination (Bulletins,

Newsletters, Good practice guides).

Security quality management services:

- Awareness building;- Security Consulting.

Additional Services:- Security audit;

- ISO 27000 implementation.

CERT-GOV-MD SERVICES

MOLDOVA

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

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TEAM-

NEXT STEPS 9

TEAM

KEY EXPERTS:

Besnik LIMAJ, KE 1: TEAM LEADER

Emilio BUGLI INNOCENTI KE 2: C.S. EXPERT

POOL OF NON KEY EXPERTS:

SENIOR EXPERTS:

JUNIOR EXPERT:

MORE S.T.E. TO BE IDENTIFIED PER SPECIFIC TASKS OF THE PROJECT

PROGRESS UP TO - JULY 2014

• Project team mobilised;

• Overlaps with other projects identified and avoided

• Development of a detailed and updated Project Work Plan

• Training Needs Analysis conducted;

• Based on the Training Needs Analysis results, suggestions

on the capacity building proposed in a detailed plan of

activities;

• Networks with relevant national stakeholders and

international partners established;

• Inception and 1st Progress Report submitted to the

Contracting Authority.

NEXT STEPS – UNTIL END OF DECEMBER, 2014

• ROME, ITALY - 43rd TF-CSIRT Meeting – 18-19 September, 2014 • SIBIU, ROMANIA TRAINING, CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ON CYBER

SECURITY 30 SEP-4OCT 2014

• PARIS, FRANCE WORKSHOP ON CYBER SECURITY STRATEGY AND PPP • 23-24 OCT 2014

• MENTORING SESSIONS PER COUNTRY – NOVEMBER 2014

• TRANSIT I – TRAINING, PRAGUE• CEH - ETHICAL HACKING TRAINING

• RECRUITMENT OF FURTHER SHORT TERM EXPERTS

SHORT TERM EXPERTS

Contact:Besnik Limaj, Team LeaderEmail: besnik.limaj@encysec.euMobile: +377 44 506 403www.encysec.eu