Category: Finland

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Finland government has come forward to help Small and Medium Enterprises(SMEs) in bolstering their IT defense-line against cyber attacks. On December 12th if this year, the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) launched a voucher-based scheme dubbed ‘Information Security Voucher’(ISV).

The Finnish government launched the ISV initiative in collaboration with the National Cyber Security Centre(NCSC) and under this scheme will fund SMEs to upgrade their IT infrastructure in such a way that they can mitigate themselves against threats existing in the current cyber landscape.

In simple words, the scheme is nothing but a sort of financial assist offered to SMEs to enhance their security capabilities against hybrid threats.

Often we saw that small-scale businesses do not have the right expertise to save their IT infrastructure, and that is because of budget constraints. ISV will help them by giving financial help to hire IT expertise.

The scheme will be divided into 2 categories- first will be a voucher worth €15k meant for small-scale enterprises and the second will be of worth €100,000 meant for medium enterprises.

ISV scheme taken up by Finland coincides with the other initiative of the same govt of accelerating business digitization backed up with Artificial Intelligence 4.0 programme.

NOTE- If history is considered, a government initiative to bolster IT infrastructure of SMEs with a sort of prepaid vouchers appears to be the first of its kind. Hope, more such initiatives will be taken up by governments across Europe, America and Australia, as it not only offers an easy-to-access training model to improve cyber threat management competency.

 

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Finland has issued a warning to all its government organizations about a digital assault carried out by Russia. Reacting to the news that its Parliament website was targeted with a Ddos attack, the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (SUPO) felt that more such attacks might strike in coming years as the country has joined NATO as Moscow is still continuing its invasion on Ukraine even after a time frame of 150 days or close to six months.

As per the initial investigation carried out by the IT wing, the distributed denial of service attack began at 2:30PM, blocking access to the website to genuine web traffic.

During the same time last month, Finland’s news agency STT was also targeted by a digital attack making it inaccessible for days.

In April this year, Finland’s Defense Ministry and a few other government websites were cyber attacked.

Kremlin doesn’t want Finland and Sweden to join NATO and so is trying its best to threaten the country’s leaders and citizens.

Meanwhile, Biden has signed a ratification document that grants permission to Finland and Sweden to join NATO.

The country along with Estonia is soon going to pass an order to stop all tourist visas to Russian Citizens, as they were ineligible to hold a vacation in the scenic locales of Europe, as their leader Vladimir Putin was wading a senseless war with Ukraine.

 

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