Octopus Cybercrime Community: Romania

In 2013 the Government of Romania adopted the Cyber Security Strategy and the National Action Plan on the implementation of the Cyber Security National System (Government Decision No. 271/2013 published in Official Journal No. 296/23 May 2013).

https://www.enisa.europa.eu/activities/Resilience-and-CIIP/national-cyber-security-strategies-ncsss/cyber-security-strategy-in-romania

The Strategy identifies the main objectives to ensure cyber security such as:

• Complete and harmonize national legislation, including the establishment and enforcement of minimum security requirements for a national cyber infrastructure;
• Develop cooperation between the public and private sector, including by fostering information exchange on threats, vulnerabilities, risks, and that related to cyber incidents and attacks.
• Provide adequate professional training to people working in cyber security and promote widespread professional certification in this field;
• Develop international cooperation on cyber security etc.

The National Strategy on Public Safety and Order for 2015-2020 provides specifically for the need to increase the level of security of legal and natural persons, as well as state entities against cybercrime.

Actions to be taken include:

• develop tools for investigation and monitoring on Internet
• ensure uniform procedure for protection of national cybersecurity infrastructure
• cooperate with other states to prevent the use of computer system for terrorism purposes etc.

A draft law on cybersecurity is currently under the second debate in Romania. A previous law was declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court.

http://www.mcsi.ro/Transparenta-decizionala/Proiecte-2016

https://www.ccr.ro/files/products/decizia_nr17.pdf

More information about Romania including main trends in cybercrime can be found in the GENVAL evaluation Report on cybercrime of Romania available here.