On June 19, New Strategy Center participated in the eighth edition of the Black Sea Cybersecurity Conference, organized by the Maritime Cybersecurity Center of Excellence at the Maritime University of Constanța, under the aegis of the European Security and Defense College. The conference serves as a melting pot for experts, policymakers, industry leaders, academics, and IT enthusiasts.
Representing NSC was Răzvan Ceuca, NSC’s expert in external relations, who delivered a lecture as part of the panel titled “Cyber Resilience Across Borders – Lessons from International Cyber Incidents.” In his presentation, the NSC expert highlighted Ukraine and Moldova as victims of Russian cyberattacks, the role of Romania and other NATO member states in providing cyber assistance to Ukraine, and a series of lessons learned from Ukraine’s cyber warfare experience.
In this context, the expert proposed a model for developing cross-border cyber resilience based on four phases: preparation, absorption, recovery, and adaptation. Based on these phases, he emphasized the need to strengthen or implement practices such as increasing the cybersecurity of systems ensuring the operation of critical infrastructures, sharing information among parties about cyber threats, adopting proactive-offensive measures from the spectrum of active cyber threats, and, drawing from Ukraine’s experience, integrating IT specialists into cyber reservist forces, as well as applying international law and responsible behavior norms in this environment against Russia.
