Chapter Supports Security Trends Conference

The chapter and its working group on cybersecurity actively supported the international Security Trends conference that opened the International Defence and Security Technologies Fair IDET 2015 in May in Brno. Martin Stropnický, minister of defense of the Czech Republic; Maj. Gen. Jiri Baloun, CZA, first deputy of the Czech army chief of staff; and Dusan Navratil, director of the National Security Authority of the Czech Republic, addressed the conference. Representatives of EDA, Europol EC3, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Czech Fire Rescue Service and NATO attended the conference. The conference program committee, led by Petr Jirasek, chairman, Czech Cyber Security Working Group, prepared an exclusive program divided into three topics: the security situation in Europe; cybersecurity; and state critical infrastructure and the protection of citizens. It was a solemn opening of the technical accompanying program of IDET and confirmed the high standard of events supported by AFCEA.

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