Malaga will not be able to fulfill his dream of house the National Cybersecurity Center. A controversy that has sat as a jug of cold water to the Junta de Andalucía, which applied the coastal city as its best alternative to host this center. The problem? There was no center to host, as the government has clarified.
The candidates. Only Malaga and León had formalized their candidacies to house the coveted institution, with the respective support of their regional governments. Malaga sounded with special force, in his efforts to continue adding victories in his attempt to make the city one of the country’s main technological hubs.
Neither one, nor another. Neither cities will host the headquarters of the future National Cybersecurity Center. The reason is very simple: no city in Spain will host this center … because this will not have any physical space.
The Government of Spain has clarified through the Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Public Function that this technological body will not be “an agency or any newly created institution that requires physical location.”
One more administrative department. The Junta de Andalucía ensures that there was a “technical memory” prepared by the central administration, with the forecast of dozens of jobs, details on the rental costs and characteristics of the building. Something that the government itself advanced in April, without formalizing it documentary, but in statements by Óscar López, Ministry of Digital Transformation.
The candidacy of Malaga managed to agree on the entire Andalusian Parliament: PP, PSOE, Vox, by Andalusia and Adelante Andalucía approved a non -law proposition to contemplate the city as a potential candidate.
A Spanish. In short, the confusion between the communities of Andalusia, Castilla y León and the Government of Spain attend to:
- Lack of clear communication by the government in the early phases of project development.
- Lack of clear communication from the communities by presenting a candidacy for an organism that had not confirmed creation of independent physical headquarters.
Lowering expectations. Óscar López himself assured that the creation of the new agency only responded to the fulfillment of the new European Cybersecurity Law. One that requires that all the coordination of centers linked to this field be mediated by national institutions.
The new National Cybersecurity Center, attached to the General Secretariat of Presidency of the Government, continues to show doubts about its strategic functioning. The draft defines it as a “coordination organ”, but its powers are still without being clear.
How is the patio. Currently, Spain has its cybersecurity structure well defined.
- Incibe-curt
- National cryptological center
- Joint cyberspace command
The new center will be nothing more than an administration attached to the DSN (Department of National Security), without its own entity or its own legal personality. The controversy arrives in one of the most critical moments in Spanish cybersecurity, with the domain. It is in full crisis and uploaded to the cyber attack podium.
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