site.btaUPDATED Vice President Iotova: Bulgaria Could Become Modern, Highly Efficient Centre for Combating Cyber Crime
Bulgaria could become a contemporary, modern and highly efficient centre for combating cyber crime, Vice President Iliana Iotova said here on Wednesday. She was speaking at the opening of Global Cyber Security Summit 2024, a forum organized by Schwarz IT Bulgaria.
The main topics discussed at the forum were related to Bulgaria's cyber security strategy, cyber security trends for 2024 and 2025, cyber defence and action during cybersecurity crises.
Iotova told the forum that cyber crime cannot be enclosed in geographical borders and is a problem of the whole world.
Artificial intelligence is a threat to jobs because it can replace human activities in many fields, but AI can also be mobilized and, based on the huge information available, be used as a natural assistant in the fight with cyber crime, the Vice President said.
"Digitalization and high technologies are an inseparable part of our everyday life and sometimes we hardly realize what a huge part they have taken of your life, how our societies are becoming more and more connected and how without communications we can no longer do even the most elementary action," Iotova said. "High technologies and digitalization are making big changes in our lives. They change the lives of billions of people, they make our lives seemingly easier, human activities are carried out much easier and in a shorter time, but this medal has its flip side, because no less forces in the world are being mobilized with the opposite goal: to harm through and for high technologies," the Vice President said further.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, in three years, hacking has increased by 600%, penetrating all spheres, especially in the field of online commerce, which has grown a lot during these years, Iotova noted. In her words, this reminds us how careful we need to be and how much we need to invest in the fight against cyber crime. "You will often hear from the heads of small and medium-sized enterprises that they cannot invest in the fight against cyber crime. It seems to me that this is an oversight, because we are at a stage where every budget should already be allocating funds to this very important activity," the Vice President argued.
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