National Audit Office calls for improvement of cybersecurity assurance system

According to the National Cybersecurity Centre, 11,659 cyber incidents were registered between 2019 and 2021. Due to the high number of these incidents, their modernisation and the potential risks of significant effects of cyber-attacks and incidents, it is increasingly important to ensure cybersecurity at the national level, to protect critical information infrastructure and the state’s electronic information resources. To assess whether cybersecurity is ensured in Lithuania, the National Audit Office carried out an audit Ensuring Cybersecurity and recommended that the system of ensuring cybersecurity be improved, the National Audit Office announced.

“The growing threat from cyber and hybrid attacks requires critical information infrastructure and electronic information to be protected with great responsibility. Lithuania ranks sixth among the world’s countries according to the 2021 United Nations International Telecommunication Union Cybersecurity Index. The result is relatively optimistic, however, the findings of our audit show that we can and must improve the country’s cybersecurity assurance system,” said Markas Marcinkevičius, Head of the Information Technology Audit Department.