Novinky Asociácie kritickej infraštruktúry Slovenskej republiky
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. Through these cables flow more than 10 trillion US dollars in financial transactions every day, the bulk of email and cloud traffic, and almost all international internet traffic. They are the physical rope on which the digital economy hangs.
Asi 99 % medzikontinentálnej digitálnej komunikácie sveta neprebieha cez satelity. Prebieha cez sieť približne 600 podmorských optických káblov s celkovou dĺžkou 1,4 milióna kilometrov, ktoré ležia na dne svetových oceánov. Cez tieto káble každý deň pretečú finančné transakcie v hodnote viac ako 10 biliónov amerických dolárov, väčšina e-mailovej a cloudovej komunikácie a takmer celá medzinárodná internetová prevádzka. Sú to fyzické laná, na ktorých drží digitálna ekonomika.
Asociácia kritickej infraštruktúry SR (ďalej len „asociácia") považuje za potrebné reagovať na článok publikovaný v Denníku E, ktorý vo viacerých bodoch nepresne interpretuje činnosť asociácie, jej členskú základňu, ako aj povahu projektov realizovaných niektorými členskými subjektmi. Nižšie uvádzame vecné stanovisko k jednotlivým tvrdeniam.
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. The Critical Infrastructure Association of the Slovak Republic gradually presents the individual sectors with the aim of bringing closer their importance, their functioning and their impacts on the everyday life of society. This time we focus on the finance sector.
Oblasť kritickej infraštruktúry v Slovenskej republike upravuje zákon č. 367/2024 Z. z. o kritickej infraštruktúre a o zmene a doplnení niektorých zákonov, ktorý definuje jednotlivé sektory, podsektory a základné služby nevyhnutné pre fungovanie štátu. Asociácia kritickej infraštruktúry Slovenskej republiky postupne predstavuje jednotlivé sektory s cieľom priblížiť ich význam, fungovanie a dopady na každodenný život spoločnosti. Tentokrát sa zameriame na sektor financií .
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 to the air hub in Leipzig, to Poland and to the United Kingdom. The head of the German counter-intelligence service BfV stated that only a flight delay prevented an in-flight detonation that could have destroyed a cargo aircraft.
Na Okresnom súde vo Vilniuse sa 17. apríla 2026 začal proces, ktorý posúva európsku diskusiu o ochrane kritickej infraštruktúry z roviny technickej do roviny veľmi konkrétnej. Päť mužov je obvinených z toho, že v júli 2024 v spolupráci s Oddelením špeciálnych úloh ruskej vojenskej spravodajskej služby GRU posielali zápalné zásielky cez DHL a DPD z Vilniusu do leteckého uzla v Lipsku, do Poľska a do Veľkej Británie. Šéf nemeckej kontrarozviedky BfV uviedol, že len omeškanie letu zabránilo detonácii vo vzduchu, ktorá mohla zničiť dopravné lietadlo.
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. At the centre stands Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 of the European Parliament and of the Council on cyber resilience, which reaches its first hard milestone on 11 September 2026: mandatory reporting of actively exploited vulnerabilities and significant incidents through ENISA's Single Reporting Platform.
Konferencia KYBER2026 Národného bezpečnostného úradu a SK-CERT, ktorá sa konala 27. a 28. apríla 2026 v hoteli Sitno Vyhne, potvrdila to, čo prevádzkovatelia základných služieb a kritických subjektov tušili už od začiatku roka. Rok 2026 nie je rokom prípravy, ale rokom preukázateľnej funkčnosti. V centre stojí nariadenie Európskeho parlamentu a Rady číslo 2024/2847 o kybernetickej odolnosti, ktoré dosiahne 11. septembra 2026 prvý ostrý míľnik, povinné hlásenie aktívne zneužívaných zraniteľností a závažných incidentov cez Single Reporting Platform agentúry ENISA.
The Critical Infrastructure Association of the Slovak Republic (AKI SR) and Slovak Investment Holding, a. s. concluded a memorandum of cooperation on 23 April 2026, the aim of which is to create a framework for the support of investments and the financing of projects in the field of critical infrastructure in Slovakia. The memorandum confirms the shared interest of both parties in developing strategic, developmental and innovation projects with a focus on increasing the resilience of critical infrastructure and securing essential services. The cooperation will concentrate in particular on the identification of suitable projects, the exchange of expert knowledge, as well as the interconnection of public and private sources of financing. An important part of the cooperation is also the use of expert capacities and practical experience in the preparation and implementation of projects, in particular in the areas of infrastructure and innovation. “We see room for projects that will have a long-term impact and, at the same time, financial sustainability. In areas of public interest, such as critical infrastructure or innovation, we can bring knowledge of the environment, the identification of projects and the interconnection of partners, so that high-quality and feasible solutions come into being,” stated Tibor Straka, President of AKI SR. According to his words, it is crucial that the cooperation brings concrete results: “It is important for us that this cooperation is sustainable in the long term and brings measurable results that will have a real benefit for Slovak critical infrastructure.” At the same time, the memorandum creates space for systematic expert cooperation, consultations and further joint activities aimed at the support of investments and the development of critical infrastructure. Both parties declare their interest in actively participating in projects that will contribute to the modernisation of infrastructure, the more efficient use of resources and the strengthening of the investment environment in Slovakia.