National Cyber Security Centre of Lithuania

National Cyber Security Centre of Lithuania

Nacionalinis kibernetinio saugumo centras
Agency overview
Formed	2015
Jurisdiction	Lithuania
Headquarters	Gedimino pr. 40, Vilnius
Parent agency	Ministry of National Defence (Lithuania)
Website	National Cyber Security Centre

The National Cyber Security Centre of Lithuania is a government internet security organization in Vilnius, Lithuania. The Centre is part of the Ministry of National Defence.^[1] It analyses the cyber security environment in Lithuania, protects national databases, manages internet operations of national organizations, prepares cyber security plans and investigates internet attacks.

The National Cyber Security Centre of Lithuania was established due increasing internet attacks against Lithuanian government organizations. Every year there are around 25,000 attacks and the number increases by 10-20% every year.^[2] The Centre was created in 2015 by reforming the Communications and Information Systems Service of Lithuania.^[3] The centre issues recommendations regarding safe usage of the internet and mobile apps.

In 2018 it warned and did not recommend to use Yandex.Taxi app due to its superfluous permission requirements and access to sensitive data and data storing on servers in Russia.^[4][5]

See also[]

• National Cyber Security Centre (disambiguation) in other countries

Links[]

National Cyber Security Centre of Lithuania on Facebook

References[]

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