Jianu also said he noticed an increase in the number of IP addresses involved in cyberattacks. „I am frightened by the increase in the number of IP addresses involved in cybersecurity incidents, from some 2.4 million IPs in 2016 to three million this year, according to the latest report of CERT-RO”.
„The national cybersecurity must be thought as an ecosystem. It is not enough to protect some key or critical infrastructures or infrastructures somehow centralized. One must think in the perspective of the country’s citizens and from companies’ perspective; one must offer them, on the one hand, the education needed to protect themselves and the mechanisms or stimuli needed to help them ensure a minimum level of security. Security at the level of centralized institutions is in vain if the situation in the country is totally different,” the minister also said.
Speaking about the role of the Communications Ministry, Jianu said the ministry is attempting to spot the mechanisms needed to ensure cybersecurity for everybody.
According to the latest report of CERT-RO, 110.19 million cybersecurity alerts were collected and processed in 2016 (61.5% more than in 2015), which affected 2.92 million unique IP addresses.