Public authorities shall be protected by Turris Omnia against cyberattacks, applications are accepte
Until June 30 this year, CZ.NIC, the administrator of the Czech national domain, will accept applications for free-of-charge rental of the secure router Turris Omnia.
Until June 30 this year, CZ.NIC, the administrator of the Czech national domain, will accept applications for free-of-charge rental of the secure router Turris Omnia. The applications can be submitted by public administration bodies through https://gov.turris.cz. More than 800 Turris Omnia routers are available for the applicants. This activity is the next phase of the project Creation and Test Operation of the Cyber Threat Intelligence System, which is financially supported by the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic under the Security Research Program of the Czech Republic for the Needs of the State for the Years 2016–2021.
“I am glad that thanks to our Turris Omnia routers we will be able to contribute to the protection of public institutions and provide effective solutions especially to small organizations that often face not only the lack of finances but also IT professionals who can secure their systems,” says Ondřej Filip, CEO of the CZ.NIC association.
By joining the project, organizations will receive the Turris Omnia router free of charge, and it will update automatically without the need for an administrator intervention. This decision also allows fulfilling the legislative requirements of the GDPR, in particular the obligation to prevent unauthorized access to data stored in the organization’s systems.
Any public administration institution can apply for the router rental, i.e. ministries and central government authorities, municipal authorities, all types of schools, embassies of the Czech Republic abroad, libraries, hospitals and other public authorities. A rental agreement will be concluded with the selected applicants for the duration of the project. Under the agreement, the representatives of the public administration institutions will, among other things, commit themselves to providing data that will be further used in the project Creation and Test Operation of the Cyber Threat Intelligence System. The National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NCISA), which is the expert project leader, will participate in the analysis of this data.
“Cyberattacks and data protection today are one of the key issues of public administration; especially small offices or schools can have a lot of security problems, and therefore the free rent of a Turris Omnia router is a unique opportunity. This device will allow us and other reliable organizations to better analyze data attacks and potential cyber threats directed at public administration bodies," adds Dušan Navrátil, Director of NCISA.
Further information related to this project is available at https://gov.turris.cz.
About the project Creation and Test Operation of the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) System
The objective of the project is to create and test the system for detection, identification and prediction of cyber threats and assessment of cyber security incidents. The system will allow information on security and threats to be shared among important security authorities of the Czech Republic.
The project coordinators are CZ.NIC, the Czech national domain administrator, and the academic association CESNET. The project is supported by the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic under the Security Research Program for the Needs of the State for the Years 2016–2021, with the National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NCISA) as the expert project leader.
As part of the project, CZ.NIC uses its many years of experience in the operation of the National Security Team CSIRT and the infrastructure for the operation of the national domain, as well as the development of the Turris security project, the main output of which is the Turris secure router.