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ANCOM Published a Handbook for Reporting Incidents with a Significant Impact on the Provision of Electronic Communications Networks and Services
19.12.2014
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The National Regulatory Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania (ANCOM) published today, in Romanian, on its website, the Handbook for reporting incidents with a significant impact on the provision of electronic communications networks and services. The main objective of the Handbook is facilitating the enforcement of the mechanism for reporting incidents with significant impact on the security and integrity of electronic communications networks and services, established by ANCOM President’s Decision no. 512/2013.
The Handbook is intended for the providers of public electronic communications networks or of publicly available electronic communications services that have the obligation to report to ANCOM all the incidents with significant impact on the security and integrity of electronic communications networks and services.
By means of this Handbook, the Authority clarifies issues regarding the detail level and the data required with a view to a complete and accurate reporting. Thus, the Handbook further details issues regarding the identification and location of resources or equipment affected by the reported security incident the geographical area affected by the incident, the duration of the incident and its impact on emergency calls.
With a view to collecting the data regarding the occurrence of security incidents as efficiently and completely as possible, and in a comparable format, ANCOM uses an online application available here.
Starting from 1 October 2013, ANCOM President’s Decision no. 512/2013 entered into force, establishing the procedure for the providers’ reporting of the incidents with significant impact on the provision of electronic communications networks and services. Thus, the providers of public electronic communications networks or of publicly available electronic communications services have the obligation to notify ANCOM on the occurrence of an incident with significant impact (affecting more than 5,000 connections, for at least 60 minutes).
The notification must be sent by 13:00 hrs of the working day following the one when the incident has been detected and must include a series of information, such as an estimate of the affected geographical area, the number of affected connections, the incident impact on the provision of networks and services by other providers or on the possibility to call the single emergency number 112.
According to the latest Report on the incidents affecting the security and integrity of the electronic communications networks and services, the electronic communications networks and services in Romania were affected by 253 security incidents with significant impact in 2013. The most affected connections were the mobile telephony ones (approximately 10 million), followed by mobile internet (more than 7.5 million), fixed telephony (over 2.3 million), fixed internet and audiovisual programme retransmission (less than 1 million). The report is available, in Romanian, here.
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