Estonia seriously opens the "Center for protection against cyberattacks"

A year ago, Estonia became the first country in the world to undergo a “cyber attack” that had a national scale . About 1 million zombie PCs were involved in it. The small Baltic country took the DDOS attack as a political aggression of the eastern neighbor and requested the help of NATO. It was decided to think of a new information security infrastructure that would help prevent similar incidents in the future. When these statements were made before, they looked like empty anti-Russian rhetoric. But today it has become known that the Center for Protection against Cyber ​​Attacks is not a joke at all, since the launch of its development has been officially announced . The official agreement was signed by the Ministers of Defense of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Spain, Italy and Slovakia.

It is worth adding that in the latest novel by Bruce Stirling , Zenith Corner, the bureaucratic and organizational system is described in detail, which can be followed by several American divisions that deal with the so-called “information war”. Here is a small quote from the classic:

“The people who are involved in the information war were among the most ridiculous types that Wang knew, because there is no such thing as“ information war ”in the world. Their tactics were sucked from the finger, as well as opponents. It was in them something from the category of Gothic fantasy. They resembled a black flock of crows of rock over the battlefield - straight from the Tolkien "Lord of the Rings." Wang could hardly bring himself to take them seriously - it was enough for him to have real problems with information security, from viruses to young hackers. ”