Hungarian experts to pick up the ‘cyber gauntlet’

A Voluntary Cyber Defence Collaboration is being set up to support a potential Hungarian cyber army

Upon the initiative of the professional platform and event called National Day of IT Security (ITBN) a collaboration of volunteers is being set up the members of which are information technology professionals safeguarding the security of important or critical computer system within their care. The objective of the platform is to react to cyber threats and attacks, hacker risks the critical and important information technology infrastructure of the country is exposed to in a coordinated and competent manner and to provide assistance to the government in their efforts of organising the protection of the cyber space of the nation, even in collaboration with an eventually set up Hungarian cyber army. The name of the civil initiative is Voluntary Cyber Defence Collaboration or KIBEV in shorthand.