The Government presents the National Cybersecurity Institute (Incibe), attached to the Ministry of Industry

The Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism has presented the new National Cybersecurity Institute (Incibe), attached to this organism and based in León, as part of the national strategy in this environment.

The new National Cybersecurity Institute (Incibe), attached to the Ministry of Industry, Energy and tourism, collect the witness of the previous Inteco (National Institute of Communication Technologies), A denomination that disappears, As has been presented during the eighth edition of the International Information Security Meeting, 8Enise, that addresses the program focused on the national cybersecurity strategy of the Government of Spain and in which more than six hundred professionals participate.

The Secretaries of State of Telecommunications and for the Information Society, Victor Calvo- Sotelo; security, Francisco Martínez; The Admiral Chief of the General Staff of the Defense, Fernando García, and the Secretary of State Director of the National Intelligence Center, Félix Sanz, They have presided over the opening ceremony, Accompanied by the Director General of INCIBE, Miguel Rego.

In its different interventions, All of them agreed that cybersecurity is a matter of higher priority and that capacities such as incibe, With a specific targeting on the matter, They ensure the proper development of this national strategy in this area.

INCIBE is framed in the commitment included in the Digital agenda for Spain to turn the previous Intec into a reference center into cybersecurity, And so it maintains its headquarters and previous structure in León.

For Víctor Calvo-Sotelo, Secretary of State of Telecommunications and for the SI, Incibe's creation responds to a "strategic reflection exercise", whose result is a change of denomination and image “complete, consistent, Rigorous and expected with cybersecurity as leit motiv present and future ”. In addition, He stressed that Enise is the framework chosen to officially present this institute as the first contact with public and private partners of the cybersecurity sector.

‘The National Cybersecurity Strategy’ is the motto chosen in the eighth edition of Enise, that this time it focuses on the analysis and reflection on the challenges and advances faced by this strategy, especially affecting public-private cooperation and on the opportunities it represents for the development of the cybersecurity industry in Spain.

Likewise, the results of the collaboration agreement between the Interior and Industry Ministries will be reviewed, Energy and tourism for the improvement of the fight against cybercrime and cyber -terrorism, signed in October 2012; The perspectives generated by the creation of the Joint Cyberdefensa Command (In February of 2013), as well as the advances in the execution of the digital agenda for Spain and its confidence plan in the digital field.

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