- As Julio César Fuster emphasized, «cybersecurity is essential to protect rights, foster trust, and strengthen democracy.»
- This highlights «The significant efforts of the Municipal Council in this area, managing a network that covers over 35 municipal buildings and provides digital support for 500 employees.»
Acting Mayor Julio César Fuster participated today in the Cyber-Security President session at Studura University, held at Ifeme. A day for SMEs, self-employed individuals, and local businesses, without a technical profile, focused on the challenges of digital security that «is a collective commitment that challenges us as a society.»
As Julio César Fuster emphasized, «Cyber-Security is essential to protect rights, encourage trust, and strengthen democracy.» He thanked the President of Extremadura University and the Chamber of Commerce of Badajoz «for creating a knowledge space that highlights cyber-security as a guarantee of continuity, competitiveness, and resilience for our businesses.»
Furthermore, the Municipal Delegate for digital transformation detailed «the significant efforts of the Municipal Council in this area, managing a network that covers over 35 municipal buildings and provides digital support for 500 employees.»
Over the past 5 years, the Municipal Council has invested nearly 17 million euros in digital transformation, electronic administration, cybersecurity, and telecommunications. Additionally, an investment of approximately 3.5 million euros (including VAT) was allocated for the new telecommunications network over the next 5 years.
The critical services provided, from accounting management and online auctions to citizen registration and participation, are connected and operational through a digital architecture that increasingly requires robustness, agility, and surveillance.
In this regard, it is emphasized that «the digital transformation of the local council was guided by the national security framework (ease) and the conviction that there is no modern administration without secure systems.»
A «very significant public investment» was made in technical solutions such as robust architecture, network segmentation, real-time threat monitoring, log collection and analysis, anti-ransomware, and continuous monitoring systems.
In addition to technological investments, the Municipal Council understood that «no matter how secure the technology is, if users are not trained, aware, and prepared.» Therefore, ongoing training campaigns, clear usage policies, and most importantly, an internal culture that «Cybersecurity is not something we implement in isolation: it is a political decision and an organizational attitude.»
A crucial step in this direction was the establishment of a CCN-CERT Security Operations Center through satin probe, demonstrating a commitment to secure, modern, citizen-oriented digitization.
Julio César Fuster Flores emphasized that this responsibility «extends to the private sector, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which often lack the technical capacity to address digital threats.» Hence, the relevance of these days, aiming to «build a common defense based on cooperation, training, and partnership.»
He also mentioned that the Municipal Council not only fulfills its obligations in cybersecurity but «leads municipal cybersecurity in Extremadura,» thanks to an «excellent team of public employees» and a «significant public budget.» This is why he stressed that «the most challenging aspect was achieved: the transformation of technology into public trust, which holds significant political value.»
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