Joint Cyberspace Command participates in cybersecurity event

• This event, with the slogan ‘You are the next target’, aims to provide tools to avoid the threats of the virtual environment

The Joint Cyberspace Command (MCCE) has participated in the event on cybersecurity organised by the Palencia Association of Information and Communication Technology Enterprises (APETIC), under the slogan ‘You are the next target’, which aimed to provide tools to avoid threats in the virtual environment.

Specifically, the MCCE's participation was part of a round table, in which the ‘Guardia Civil’ and the National Police also took part, and which dealt with cybersecurity in enterprises, public administration and the civilian population.

Commander Enrique Pérez de Tena Martos, Head of the Cooperation and Communication Section of the MCCE, gave an overview of the joint cooperation in the area of national cyber defence, highlighting the ‘hybrid’ nature of human beings, with a physical and a virtual identity that, on many occasions, have little to do with each other, but are intimately linked. What happens in the virtual has effects on the real, and vice versa. Furthermore, he recalled that the first level of defence is the user himself, well ahead of any additional software or additional measures.

The ‘Guardia Civil’ highlighted the concepts of threat, risk and vulnerability in order to analyse the possible levels of response, concluding on the great importance of reporting cybercrime, equating it to conventional crimes due to its dangers and nature.

The National Police, on the other hand, mentioned the great difficulty posed by the traceability of cybercrime and cyberattacks. In this multinational and technologically globalised environment, the need to use common sense in the event of suspicion of being a potential or actual victim of a cyber-attack is evident.

This event, organised by APETIC, has also counted with the collaboration of the Palencia City Hall and the Provincial Government.