Critical Infrastructure Association of the Slovak Republic

The weakest point of an organization has long ceased to be its own technology. Increasingly, it is becoming a supplier who has access to systems, data, or ensures the operation of critical services...

The Critical Infrastructure Association of the Slovak Republic continues its presentation of individual critical infrastructure sectors. This time, the focus is on an area that forms the digital backbone of modern society and ensures the continuous flow of information, data, and electronic services – the Digital Infrastructure sector.

The Critical Infrastructure Association of the Slovak Republic continues its series of articles introducing the essential services defined by Act on Critical Infrastructure. Now we turn our attention to the service that ensures the safe and reliable transmission of electricity across the entire territory of the Slovak Republic – the operation, maintenance and development of the electricity transmission system...

Imagine a situation where equipment that ensures the supply of electricity, the production of drinking water, or the operation of a hospital fails. The failure itself may not be the biggest problem. A much greater challenge can be discovering that the replacement part is manufactured on the other side of the world and its delivery will take several months...

The Critical Infrastructure Association of the Slovak Republic continues its series of professional articles dedicated to the individual sectors of critical infrastructure.

This article is dedicated to the Water and Atmosphere sector, which forms the foundation of environmental stability...

The Critical Infrastructure Association of the Slovak Republic continues its series of articles introducing the essential services. Following the topic of electricity supply, we now focus on the operation, maintenance, and development of the electricity distribution system...

The reality of recent months in Europe reveals a less visible but fundamental shift in attacks against critical infrastructure. The decisive factors are no longer just large power sources, but inconspicuous locations within the distribution grid itself.

The AKI SR is opening a new series of articles in which we will progressively introduce all essential services defined by Act on Critical Infrastructure. The first essential service we are focusing on is the supply of electricity...

Until a few years ago, data centres were mostly perceived as the technical backbone of the internet, cloud services and corporate servers. Today, however, the situation is changing dramatically. The rapid development of artificial intelligence, massive generative AI models and the accelerating digitalisation of states mean that data centres are becoming among the largest new consumers of electricity in Europe...

The Critical Infrastructure Association of the Slovak Republic continues its series of articles introducing both the public and the professional community to the individual sectors of critical infrastructure as defined by Act No. 367/2025 Coll. on Critical Infrastructure. Following sectors such as energy, transport and finance, we now turn to a sector that is part of the daily life of citizens as well as the functioning of the state – postal services.

Until recently, the security of critical infrastructure was associated mainly with the protection of physical facilities, energy sources, or state systems. Today, however, it is increasingly clear that the real vulnerability often lies outside the organisation itself: in its supply chains, technology partners, and external services...

Slovak Investment Holding offers AKI SR members support in financing resilience

In January 2024, an employee of a financial firm in Hong Kong executed a transfer worth 25 million US dollars. He did so after a video conference with the chief financial officer and colleagues from headquarters that appeared entirely authentic. Yet on the call he was the only real person...

The Critical Infrastructure Association of the Slovak Republic is proud to present the success of two of its members.....

The KYBER2026 conference of the National Security Authority and SK-CERT, held on 27 and 28 April 2026 at Hotel Sitno Vyhne, confirmed what operators of essential services and critical entities had already suspected since the beginning of the year. 2026 is not a year of preparation — it is a year of demonstrable functionality.

The Slovak Republic is in the final phase of a process that is fundamentally changing the approach to the protection of critical infrastructure. In accordance with Act No. 367/2024 Coll. on Critical Infrastructure, the list of entities that will be officially identified as critical for the functioning of the state is to be completed in July 2026.

In August 2023, something happened on the Polish railways that until then had belonged to the realm of scenarios, not reality. Unknown actors abused the radio system for emergency stopping (radio-stop) and transmitted a signal that brought more than 20 trains to a halt in various regions of the country.

Roughly 99 % of the world's intercontinental digital communication does not travel through satellites. It travels through a network of approximately 600 submarine fibre-optic cables with a combined length of 1.4 million kilometres, lying on the floor of the world's oceans. 

On 17 April 2026, a trial began at the District Court in Vilnius that is shifting the European debate on the protection of critical infrastructure from the technical level to a very concrete one. Five men are charged with sending, in July 2024, in cooperation with the Special Tasks Department of the Russian military intelligence service GRU, incendiary parcels via DHL and DPD from Vilnius....

The area of critical infrastructure in the Slovak Republic is regulated by Act No. 367/2024 Coll. on Critical Infrastructure and on the Amendment and Supplementation of Certain Acts, which defines the individual sectors, sub-sectors and essential services necessary for the functioning of the state.

On 9 April 2026, Slovenské elektrárne, the Czech ČEZ, the Finnish Fortum and the Hungarian MVM Paks NPP signed a contract with the company Framatome for the development of the VERA-440 fuel assembly, which is a 100 % European fuel for VVER-440 reactors...

An actor operating under the name “FlamingChina” claims to have obtained more than 10 petabytes of data from China’s National Supercomputing Centre in Tianjin, including military simulations, weapons system schematics and classified research materials

A large-scale power outage is no longer a hypothetical scenario. Recent months have brought a series of incidents showing that the stability of Europe's electricity systems is exposed to a combination of threats on a scale we have not previously encountered.

Artificial intelligence is changing the rules of the game in critical infrastructure protection. It is no longer merely an aid in defence — it is also becoming a weapon in the hands of attackers. The question is no longer whether AI will enter the critical infrastructure environment, but how quickly we can prepare for this change.