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PM Netanyahu to Dedicate National Center to Manage Cyber Events,
PM Netanyahu to Dedicate National Center to Manage Cyber Events, in Be’er
Sheva Tomorrow
(Communicated by the Prime Minister’s Media Adviser)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will, tomorrow (Thursday, 22 December
2016), at the high-tech park in Be’er Sheva, dedicate and tour the National
Cyber Defense Authority center for managing cyber events (CERT).
The Israel National Cyber Bureau, in the Prime Minister’s Office, was
established in 2011 following a decision by the Prime Minister. In
accordance with a 2015 Cabinet decision, the Prime Minister ordered the
establishment of the National Cyber Defense Authority, as part of the INCB,
and tasked it with defending Israel’s civilian cyber space.
Be’er Sheva Mayor Rubik Danilovitz, INCB head Dr. Eviatar Matania and NCDA
head Buki Carmeli will attend tomorrow’s ceremony.
The CERT (Cyber Event Readiness Teams) will work to improve defensive
resilience and will assist in dealing with cyber events. It will also serve
as a focus for the sharing of relevant information with all relevant
elements in the economy and with additional partners around the world.
This will be a unique center in the world vis-à-vis innovative technological
system and infrastructures, support systems and advanced defensive
capabilities, which will enable the formation of an up-to-date picture of
the situation and the managing of cyber events in real time. It was
established in cooperation with international and Israeli industry (the
latter security and civilian).
The project to build the center, which began two years ago, was established
in the Be’er Sheva high-tech park as part of the city’s cyber ecosystem. The
center was established based on futuristic planning that will foster
functional continuity also in time of emergency as well as the upgrading of
systems and infrastructures in order to maintain its up-to-date status and
technological advantage.
The center combines operational components and processes including the
government SOC (real-time monitoring); a cyber center and functional
continuity for the Ministry of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water
Resources; and a cyber center for the financial sector in cooperation with
the Finance Ministry, Bank of Israel and the Israel Securities Authority. In
the future it will include centers for additional sectors. The center also
enables multiple cyber events to be dealt with simultaneously including by
providing responses based on field teams.
It should be noted that many countries have expressed interest in the
Israeli center and have asked to visit it and study its unique model.
Prime Minister Netanyahu: “We are completing an additional significant step
in building an elite cyber defense for the State of Israel – the
establishment of a center for managing events that is among the most
advanced in the world in terms of technologies, systems and doctrine. We are
realizing the vision of Be’er Sheva as an international cyber capital that
attracts multi-national companies to invest in Israel.”
Source: http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=71919
