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OSCE Project Co-ordinator provides solutions to enhance protection of Ukraine’s State Voter Register from cyber threats
Publishing date: 28 November 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Cyber/ICT Security, Elections
On 28 November 2018 Ukraine’s Central Election Commission (CEC) installed equipment and software provided by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine for ensuring comprehensive technical protection of the State Voter Register, as part of efforts aimed at enhancing security of election administration systems from digital threats. This is an important step in the implementation of the CEC’s plans to enhance the cybersecurity of election administration during the 2019 votes.
OSCE Mission supports capacity building of Serbian police in investigating cybercrime and cyber forensics
Publishing date: 6 November 2018
BELGRADE, 6 November 2018 – The OSCE Mission to Serbia, in close partnership with the Ministry of the Interior (MoI) on 6 and 7 November organized a training course for building police capacities in cyber forensics and investigating cybercrime.
New technological features, policy engagement and public-private partnerships as ways to lower risks of cyber conflicts in focus at Rome conference
Publishing date: 28 September 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Cyber/ICT Security
ROME, 28 September 2018- Innovative measures to lower the risks of conflict between states in cyberspace such as emerging technological features, policy engagement, public-private partnerships are the focus of the 2018 OSCE-wide Conference on Cyber/ICT Security taking place in Rome today...
Slovakia’s OSCE Chairmanship to work towards boosting multilateralism and conflict prevention, State Secretary Lukáš Parízek tells Permanent Council
Publishing date: 19 July 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
VIENNA, 19 July 2018 – Slovakia’s OSCE Chairmanship next year will pursue strategies that boost multilateralism, promote conflict prevention and focus on addressing the needs of people, said the country’s Foreign and European Affairs State Secretary Lukáš Parízek in Vienna today, as he addressed the Permanent Council on the incoming Chairmanship’s priority areas...
Promoting cyber stability through co-operation between States and private sector explored at meeting of OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 12 July 2018
VIENNA, 12 July 2018- Co-operation between the OSCE’s participating States and role of public-private partnerships in enhancing cyber stability between States was the focus of today’s OSCE Permanent Council meeting in Vienna.
Greater political will is needed to ensure implementation of international commitments, participants say at opening of OSCE PA Annual Session in Berlin
Publishing date: 9 July 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
BERLIN, 8 July 2018 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 2018 Annual Session opened today in Berlin with calls for greater political will to ensure the full implementation of international commitments found in the Helsinki Final Act and other OSCE documents. As elected representatives of the people, members of parliament have a key role to play in building support among decision-makers in governments for ensuring compliance with these commitments, speakers said at the Annual Session’s opening plenary session.
OSCE co-organizes sub-regional training course in Bucharest on role of information and communication technologies in context of regional and international security
Publishing date: 28 June 2018
Some 40 officials and experts from eight OSCE participating States in South-Eastern Europe gathered in Bucharest on 27 and 28 June 2018 for a sub-regional training course organized by the OSCE and Romania’s Foreign Ministry on the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of regional and international security...