1. Cybersecurity in Belarus a general overview of support areas
Marianne Sakalova
November 2014

2. CYBERSECURITY IN BELARUS: AN OVERVIEW
Context
Strategic documents
Legislation
Awareness
International Cooperation
Strategic vision

3. Internet penetration 70%
CONTEXT
Population
 Internet users 4,
Internet penetration 70%
84, 4% access internet on daily basis

4. CONTEXT “Crimes in the sphere of information security”
“Theft with the use of computer equipment”
“Crimes in the sphere of information security”
Ministry of Internal Affairs 2013

5. CONTEXT Technocratic approach (informatization)
part of national ICT development program
doesn’t have any specific attention as public policy issue
Low level of public awareness
Belarusian legislation does not provide satisfactory basis for
proper balance between freedom and security online,

6. CONTEXT
2012 Survey of the National security Institute:
Is there a necessity to adopt legal acts on information security?
22 Ministries
411 government officials
12 experts
Информационная безопасность как составляющая национальной безопасности государства: материалы Междунар. науч.-практ. конф., Минск, июля 2013 года: в 3 т. / Ин-т нац. безопасности Респ. Беларусь; редкол.: С.Н. Князев (гл.ред.) [и др.]. – Минск, – Т. 2.- C. 24, 28, 32

7. STRATEGIC DOCUMENTS National Security Concept (2010)
Strategy for the Information Society Development (2010)
National Programme for Accelerated Development in the Sphere of Information and Communication Services (2011) (Subprogram “ICT security and Digital Trust”)

8. DEFINITION
Information security means the state of the protection of national interests in the information sphere, as determined by the overall balanced interests at the level of the individual, society and the state
Cybercrime

9. LEGISLATION
Law on Information, Informatization and Information Protection (2008)
The Law on state secrets (2010)
Law on Electronic Document and Electronic Digital Signature (2009)
Presidential Decree on Measures to Improve the Use of the National Segment of the Internet (2010) О мерах по cовершенствованию использования национального сегмента сети Интернет
Presidential Decree on Measures to Provide Security of Critical Informatization Facilities (2011) О некоторых мерах по обеспечению безопасности критически важных объектов информатизации
Presidential Decree on Measures to Improve Information Protection (2013) О некоторых мерах по cовершенствованию защиты информации
Resolution of OAC and Ministry of communication On some issues of subprogram on information security and digital trust (2011)
OAC Order on some issues of functioning of State System of PKI (2012)

10. AWARENESS

11. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Operational level
Collective security treaty organization
INTERPOL
NATO
Strategic level
CIS
Bilateral agreements
Agreement with RF on cooperation in the sphere of international information security (2014)
Cyberwar
Cybercrime
Protection of information space
Infrastructure
A joint regional project of the European Union and the Council of Europe on cooperation against cybercrime under the Eastern Partnership Facility ( )

12. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
United Nations A/65/201, 30 July 2010, Report of Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security
Further dialogue among States to discuss norms pertaining to State use of ICTs, to reduce collective risk and protect critical national and international infrastructure;
Confidence-building, stability and risk reduction measures to address the implications of State use of ICTs, including exchanges of national views on the use of ICTs in conflict;
Information exchanges on national legislation and national information and communications technologies security strategies and technologies, policies and best practices;
Identification of measures to support capacity-building in less developed countries;
Finding possibilities to elaborate common terms and definitions relevant to General Assembly resolution 64/25 (Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the First Committee (A/64/386)] 64/25. Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security.

13. STRATEGIC VISION
Council of Europe Facility: Cooperation against Cybercrime
Continue the work to accede to the Budapest Convention
Announced in 2012
Develop a national cybersecurity strategy including the protection of critical infrastructure.
Announced in 2013
Amendments to the national legislation +
Establish a multi-agency task force to discuss and resolve practical challenges against cybercrime.
Announced in 2014 («Центр
противодействия
киберпреступности»)
To found a national computer emergency response team (CERT) and integrate it
into the international CSIRT/CERT network
Established in 2012
Member of FIRST 2013

14. Convention on international Convention on cybercrime
STRATEGIC VISION
Russian Federation
Council of Europe
Convention on international
information
security
(2011)
Convention on cybercrime
(2001) ?

15. Thank you!