Poland slammed over holes in cyber-defence landscape

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Summary: An upcoming audit has found massive failings across Polish institutions when it comes to digital threats.
 
By Michiel van Blommestein for Central European Processing | November 28, 2014
 
Polish institutions are ill-prepared for cyberattacks and are not cooperating well enough to be effective in tackling online threats, according to a state auditor.
According to Poland's Supreme Audit Office (NIK), state agencies as well as other government institutions are not collaborating enough and lack the expertise to deal with new security threats, department director Marek Bienkowski told the audience at a security conference this week in the Polish capital of Warsaw.
While the NIK's audit is still ongoing and the final report hasn't published yet, it's already clear the Polish authorities have much work ahead of them. 
 
The NIK has been auditing cybersecurity at Polish government institutions since the summer, looking into the agencies' files dating back til 2008. While audits of some organisations are still ongoing, the NIK's director is confident of its eventual findings — and alarmed enough about them — to share some of the preliminary conclusions. And they aren't pretty.
 
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