Selected Legislative Aspects of Cybernetic Security in the Slovak Republic

Abstract

Networks and information systems play a crucial role in free movement and are often interconnected and connected to the Internet as a global tool. Their disturbance in one Member State therefore affects other Member States and the whole European Union. Resilience of networks and stability of the information system is therefore a basic prerequisite for a smooth and undistorted functioning of the European Union’s internal market and a prerequisite for international cooperation. The National Security Authority, as the central authority for cyber security, has prepared a bill on Cyber Security on the basis of several approved documents. By its approval and effect from 1 March 2018, the content of Directive 2016/1148 of the European Parliament and of the Council from 6 July 2016 measures to ensure a high common level of network security and information systems in the Union and is also transposed into the law of the Slovak Republic. The aim of this paper is to investigate selected legal institutes of the law using a number of scientific methods and to point out their crucial importance for the cyber security of the Slovak Republic. The subject matter of the survey is the field of law of information and communication technology, military and administrative law. However, this is a multidisciplinary examination of this problem, which interferes with security management.