OBSE Conference on Cybersecurity

On 17 and 18 July 2019, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe hosted a conference in Vienna on cybersecurity and information and communication systems security, called Cyber/ICT Security for a safer future: The OSCE’s role in fostering regional cyber stability.

The conference was attended by representatives of 36 OSCE participating countries and dozens of non-governmental and private sector representatives. The main guests of 2-day conference were the UN Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, a Special Representative of Brazil to the Conference on Disarmament and a Chair of the Group of Governmental Experts on further effective measures for the prevention of an arms race in outer space (UN GGE) the Ambassador Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota and a Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the UN and a Chair of the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security (OEWG) the Ambassador Jürg Lauber.

 

In the modern history of cybersecurity, for the first time, at the international conference, the chairmen of both UN working groups on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security met in one panel.

A total of 34 speakers and moderators of five main panels performed at the event. The Slovak Republic was represented by Deputy Prime Minister for Investments and Informatization Mr. Richard Raši with an opening speech. The main panel about the influence of the artificial intelligence on cyber/information and communications technologies and their potential security challenges has been moderated by the officer of the National Security Authority Mrs. Andrea Pobocik. The speaker in the panel was the General Director for Cybersecurity of the Government Office of the Slovak Republic Mr. Jan Majtan.  

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