The Government Council of the Community of Madrid approved this Wednesday the bill to create the Cybersecurity Agency with the aim of shielding the Administration from computer attacks such as the one suffered by the Seville City Council in September when its computer systems were hijacked. by a hacker
What will be the first legislative project to be debated in the Assembly this term comes after the Community of Madrid has detected, and neutralized, 62,791 cyber attack threats between January and August of this year. 60.23% more than what was registered in the same period of 2022 (39,186).
The speed of processing is due to the fact that the text was almost entirely written since the last legislature. However, Díaz Ayuso’s team saw how the votes of Vox, who decided to join the left-wing groups (Más Madrid, PSOE and Unidas Podemos), overthrew this initiative by considering it more of a “beach bar” than a public body.
On this occasion, however, the initiative of the Minister of Digitalization, Miguel López-Valverde, could even have the support of the PSOE whose Parliamentary Group has registered a similar Non-Law Proposition (PNL) in the Madrid Assembly to ask the Community the creation of an Advanced Cybersecurity Center “with the capacity to monitor, anticipate, audit, report and resolve any cyber incident.”
The new organization will propose and promote the use of prevention, detection and response solutions to network threats and will promote entrepreneurship in the sector’s business ecosystem.
The Agency will be key for those municipal entities with less than 20,000 inhabitants that do not have strategies or means to protect their networks and systems, deploying the measures to follow. In addition, it will facilitate the connection with private providers and with those who relate to public services through electronic means, and will act as a collaboration body with the National Cryptological Center (CCN).
The regional Executive will continue with this regulation, enhancing its powers in this matter, since it will be in charge of facilitating a centralized vision and increasing government capabilities, through the configuration of the Cybersecurity Incident Response Team (CSIRT, for its acronym in English). ) throughout the Community of Madrid.
It will also be focused on reinforcing the computer protection of the most relevant infrastructures, with special attention to the health area due to its criticality.
