Georgia ranks 8th in Global Cybersecurity Index 2017
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Georgia has ranked 8th among 165 countries worldwide in the newest Global Cybersecurity Index.
The International Telecommunication Union released its 2017 rankings earlier this week. Georgia’s place in the 8th spot means the country has improved its positions by four steps. Georgia was ranked 12th in the previous edition, released in 2015.
The Georgian Justice Ministry believes that the achievement became possible for Georgia thanks to the efforts of a governmental department CERT.GOV.GE that specialises in identifying, registering, and analysing critical computer incidents, issues recommendations, and conducts prompt responses to such occurrences.
CERT.GOV.GE operates under the Data Exchange Agency of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia and is responsible of handling critical incidents that occur within Georgian Governmental Networks and critical infrastructure.
The Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) is a multi-stakeholder initiative to measure the commitment of countries to cybersecurity. It analyzes each country’s development within five categories: legal measures, technical measures, organisational measures, capacity building, and cooperation.
Graduates of Georgian schools and university students took part in the very first cyber security festival in Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi.
Georgia together with the countries from the Eastern Partnership Region, South-eastern Europe and Turkey are making progress in the investigation of cybercrime by establishing closer links between professional communities of cybercrime investigators.
Georgia and Lithuania are establishing a joint cyber security group to take part in international cyber trainings so both countries are better protected from online crime.
About 30 per cent of Georgian computer users have faced various cyber threats in the first nine months of 2019, while 32 per cent of the users were attacked by dangerous programmes, Kaspersky Lab Georgia reports.
The Cyber Security Bureau of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia has become a full member of the Multinational Malware Information Sharing Platform (MISP), which is a NATO-endorsed smart defence initiative, reports the Ministry of Defence.
Facebook pages run on servers located outside Georgia are running fake news on the new coronavirus outbreak on Georgian-language Facebook, a research by the state's Data Exchange Agency has revealed.
The Cyber Security Bureau of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia claimed third place in Locked Shields 2022, a cybersecurity training organised by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, on Tuesday.