President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Zhaparov took part in the opening of the building of the Coordination Center to ensure cybersecurity of the State National Security Committee (GKNB) of the Kr.
According to Kabar agency, the new center will coordinate the activities of state bodies, response centers for computer incidents to ensure cybersecurity, identify, prevent and suppress computer attacks.
The Head of State noted that the rapid development of information technology and digital economy around the world is accompanied by certain risks and dangers. Moreover, there are situations that directly affect national security.
The president emphasized that ensuring the cybersecurity of digital infrastructures and services that are actively created in the country is one of the most important issues in the confrontation of such challenges of our time.
“Given that recently there have been hacker attacks on state and other information systems, there is a need to raise and develop this direction to a quality level as soon as possible,” the president said, adding that the relevance of work is associated with dynamic processes in the field international and regional security, as well as with the consequences of military-political events in the world.
In this regard, the head of state focused on the importance of taking into account the advanced foreign experience and the best practices of partners in the field of cybersecurity.