The Secretary of State, Director of the National Intelligence Centre and the National Cryptologic Centre, Esperanza Casteleiro, and the Director-General of the Public Business Entity Red.es, Alberto Martínez, signed a collaboration agreement last July to strengthen cybersecurity in Spain.
By virtue of this agreement, the National Cryptologic Centre, within the National Intelligence Centre, and Red.es, a public business entity attached to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, through the Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, will cooperate in reinforcing the capacities to prevent, detect and respond to possible cyberthreats, expanding the avenues of collaboration initiated years ago between the two organisations.
In this way, the National Cryptologic Centre (CCN) will support Red.es in the management of the cybersecurity of the “.es” domain and the academic and research network RedIRIS (which provides advanced connectivity services and other common ICT services to Spanish universities and scientific centres). In doing so, the CCN will contribute to strengthening Red.es’s cybersecurity prevention capacities by providing the CCN-STIC series of guides, so that they may be adapted to the environments in which this entity operates. In this context, the two bodies will collaborate in carrying out technical or compliance audits of information systems and in developing training activities and programmes in this field.
In the framework of detection, both organisations will cooperate in the detection of security incidents, sharing information and procedures to achieve a swift and effective response. It is precisely to improve response capacities that the agreement between the CCN and Red.es contemplates joint action in the implementation of active cyberdefence measures and coordination between the two organisations in the development of projects to improve the cybersecurity of Spain’s digital ecosystem.
These projects include the deployment of a Cybersecurity Operations Centre (SOC) to improve the protection and defence of Spanish universities through RedIRIS, and its subsequent integration into the National Network of SOCs, led by the CCN to coordinate collaboration and the exchange of technical information between all of Spain’s public operations centres.
The CCN and RedIRIS will be supported by the recent joint launch of a specific SOC for the Singular Scientific and Technical Infrastructures (ICTSs) controlled by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, which will progressively extend the scope of its services in order to improve their protection.
Further information on the National Cryptologic Centre’s website.