Critical Infrastructure Association of the Slovak Republic

Several incidents in the space of a single week. And in one case, 4.2 GW of generation capacity was temporarily taken offline. Germany is dealing with a series of attacks on its electricity grid that highlights one important point: the target does not necessarily have to be the power plant itself...

District heating and cooling are an important part of the energy infrastructure of cities and municipalities. Their role is not limited to providing thermal comfort; they create stable conditions for the functioning of households, public institutions, industry and other facilities...

On 31 August 2026, a working meeting took place at the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic with State Secretary of the Ministry of Interior Patrik Krauspe, Director General of the Crisis Management Section Jaroslav Kmeť, Nada Trelová Sonogová from the Department of International Cooperation and representatives of the AKI SR...

The Government of the Slovak Republic has approved a draft act on the cybersecurity of products with digital elements, also referred to as the cyber resilience act...

The digitalisation of industry, energy, transport, water management and other strategic sectors brings a marked increase in efficiency and opens up possibilities for automated control. At the same time, however, it creates an ever closer link between the digital and the physical world...

The Ministry of the Interior has made public the open part of the National List of Critical Entities of the Slovak Republic. The list is based on Act on Critical Infrastructure and is the outcome of the critical entity identification process carried out at national level...

In our series gradually introducing the essential services under Act on Critical Infrastructure, we continue with another service in the Nuclear Energy subsector: the construction, commissioning, operation and decommissioning of a nuclear installation...

The upcoming heating season is a reminder that security of energy supply is not merely a question of the market. The Echo24 portal has drawn attention to an analysis by Oxford Economics, according to which this may be the European Union's most demanding winter in terms of energy supply since the crisis period of 2021–2022...

We continue our series dedicated to essential services under Act on critical infrastructure. This time we focus on a service whose importance is growing alongside the transformation of the energy sector – electricity storage...

Europe is experiencing another wave of extreme heat, which is shifting from an exceptional phenomenon into a new standard. Record temperatures, prolonged drought, and the overheating or decline of watercourses can no longer be viewed solely as an environmental problem. They are increasingly affecting the functioning of the state and threatening the continuity of its basic services...

Series: Essential Services of Critical Infrastructure

For decades, the electricity system was built on the principle of a few large power plants supplying millions of consumers. Today, however, the energy sector is changing faster than ever before. Thousands of photovoltaic power plants, wind sources, battery storage systems, heat pumps, smart buildings, and charging stations for electric vehicles are entering the grid...

Industry is one of the sectors where the importance of critical infrastructure becomes very tangible. Not in abstract definitions, but in the state’s ability to maintain the availability of medicines, the continuity of metallurgical production, supplies of key chemical substances, functioning supply chains, and technological self-sufficiency at times when standard market mechanisms may not be enough...

A commentary by the President of the Critical Infrastructure Association of the Slovak Republic...

Food is not merely a commodity. It is a daily test of the functioning of the state.

When this system works, the public barely notices it. When it is disrupted, the consequences come quickly - empty shelves, rising prices, pressure on households, threats to vulnerable groups, panic buying, supply failures in hospitals or social care facilities...

In this series, the AKI SR is gradually introducing the individual essential services listed in the Critical Infrastructure Act. This time we turn to a service that most people have never heard named, yet rely on every second of the day: electricity demand management...

At the initiative of AKI SR, representatives of the Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic paid a working visit to Foss Fibre Optics. The Ministry’s delegation was led by State Secretary Martin Vojtašovič...

Decent Cybersecurity has been selected among the ten innovators chosen for the Decision Superiority for NATO Warfighters challenge, launched by the Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (NATO DIANA) in close collaboration with Allied Command Operations (ACO)...

The Critical Infrastructure Association of the Slovak Republic continues its series of articles presenting the individual critical infrastructure sectors. This time we turn to one of the most interesting — and perhaps also most surprising — sectors: Space.

The AKI SR is presenting a series of articles that gradually introduce the individual essential services listed in Annex No. 1 of Act on Critical Infrastructure...

On July 17, 2026, the deadline will expire by which central state administration bodies must, for the first time, identify critical entities under Act on Critical Infrastructure. This will be the first identification process following the approval of the Strategy for the Resilience of Critical Entities...

We continue our series of expert articles dedicated to the individual sectors of critical infrastructure under Act on Critical Infrastructure. Today we take a closer look at the public administration sector...

Another article in the series in which we present the essential services of critical infrastructure under Act No. 367/2024 Coll. on Critical Infrastructure...

The topic of cooperation in quantum technologies, digital security, and critical infrastructure protection between AKI SR and C-DOT has appeared in several Indian media outlets and on professional platforms...

On the occasion of the visit of the Prime Minister of the Republic of India, Narendra Modi, to Slovakia, AKI SR and the Indian government organization C-DOT signed a Memorandum of Understanding...