The Finnish government is providing technical and financial support to an IT and cyber security initiative being run in partnership with the country’s municipal districts.
Over 200 of Finland’s 311 municipalities have joined the Local Government Anti Cyberspace Threats (LGACT) project to conduct joint IT network defence exercises. The project will share information on strengthening municipal IT systems against a broad range of malicious attacks from the cyber domain.
The LGACT, which ran a major multi-agency joint exercise in November, will also serve as a collaborative platform and professional skills hub to test cyber risk-related predictive software. Moreover, the LGACT will cooperate with the state’s leading cyber and national security organisations to develop a range of defensive and offensive tools that reduce risk exposure to next-generation threats and attacks from cyber space.
The November cyber exercise saw the LGACT collaborate with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), The Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities (Kuntaliitto), The Population Register Centre of Finland (PRCF/Väestörekisterikeskus) and the state IT security agency…
