Cybersecurity News

Discussions about foreign propaganda, disinformation and misinformation remain at the heart of the political debate in the European Union (EU) and across the transatlantic area. In the context of on-going disinformation campaigns targeting our democratic societies, National Endowment for Democracy, in collaboration with the Beacon Project of the International Republican Institute (IRI), the Centre for Propaganda and Disinformation Analysis and the Casimir Pulaski Foundation held a conference dedicated to strengthening a networked response, addressing disinformation and its causes on both the transatlantic and the national level. The conference was a side event of the Warsaw Security Forum 2018. The conference started with a panel entitled “A Networked response to Disinformation” […]

On August 30th the Casimir Pulaski Foundation hosted the roundtable discussion entitled “The role of international cooperation in assuring the efficiency of the national cybersecurity system - Future of Polish-Israeli relations”. The honourable guest of the event was Professor Isaac Ben Israel from the Tel Aviv University. Professor Ben Israel has experience both in the military service and civilian sector. Apart from that, Professor Ben Israel is an author of numerous publication on the military and security issues which makes him the qualified expert in the discussed topic. Different other scholars and academics from political, academic, diplomatic, and media spheres also joined the roundtable which caused the discussion to be […]

Today on May 9th,  the Casimir Pulaski Foundation hosted a round table discussion pertaining to cyber security and Israel specifically, the Foundation welcomed Ruth Cohen-Dar, the deputy ambassador of Israel to Poland and Iddo Moed, the director of cybersecurity at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Israel. The discussion primarily focused on the role cyber security must play in maintaining the integrity of elections and democracy as a whole, given the string of recent cyber-attacks across the world which  succeeded in undermining the electoral process in several nations.  In 2010, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized the need for a national approach to cyber-security, not only given Israel’s foreign policy situation […]

On April 6, 2017 the second edition of Polish Cybersecurity Forum (CYBERSEC PL) is organized by Kosciuszko Institute (IK). CYBERSEC PL is the leading conference dedicated to strategic aspects of national cybersecurity. Pulaski Foundation joined as one the institutional partners of the event. We are in the middle of the fourth industrial revolution. It is a strong impulse towards the innovative development of Polish economy together with cybersecruity sector. Pulaski Foundation believes that the dialogue started by Kosciuszko Institute is worth supporting to release the state’s developmental potential and use opportunities standing in front of us. CYBERSEC PL’s mission is building national capabilities to use them to strengthen Polish cybersecurity […]

Propositions for full implementation of Council’s GDPR regulations into Polish legal system by Spring 2017. Legal and technological issues were discussed during the seminar on the EU’s reform of personal data protection and its effects on public and private sector in Poland, which took place on 16 January 2017 in Warsaw. The event, organized by the Casimir Pulaski Foundation, was under patronage of the Polish Ministry of Digitalization, the General Data Protection Supervisor and the European Commission Representation in Poland. New national data protection regulation is still in its conceptual phase, but as Dr Maciej Kawecki, counsellor in the Political Cabinet to the Minister of Digitalization, said “it is planned […]

On September 27th, 2016 in Radisson Blue Hotel in Kyiv took place an international conference “Cybersecuring Ukrainian Energy Infrastructure” organized by Casimir Pulaski Foundation and “Poland–Ukraine Research Center Foundation”. The conference was culmination of Pulaski Foundation's research project supported by International Visegrad Fund's grant, which aimed to examine the most important technological and legal problems concerning cybersecurity of Ukraine. The project was also focused on creating guidelines for good practices and strengthening international cooperation in this field. The conference gathered many prominent experts on energy security and securing information from Poland, Ukraine, Czech Republic and Hungary. Discussions concerned security threats in the sphere of information and energy infrastructure, which Ukraine […]

On October 29th at the Casmir Pulaski Foundation, a roundtable discussion, titled Cyber Maturity in Europe, was held in the framework of the Pulaski Security Briefings cycle. Mrs. Melissa Hathaway, Senior Advisor for Cyber Security Project at Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs was a special guest at the event. The meeting was organised in cooperation with the Embassy of the United States in Warsaw. The goal of the seminary was to present experiences and achievements of the United States in the field of cybersecurity and to assess current level of security of computer systems in European states. Melissa Hathaway also presented rapport titled “Cyber Readiness Index […]