Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Adil Karaismailoğlu shared Turkey’s cyber security scorecard in a statement to the press. Stating that important measures have been taken in this regard and institutions such as the Cyber Incidents Response Team (SOME) and the National Cyber Incidents Response Center (USOM) have been established against possible cyber attacks, Minister Karaismailoğlu also mentioned how many cyber attacks have been repelled in recent years.
According to the statements made by Minister Adil Karaismailoğlu, 502,386 cyber attacks were prevented from 2017 to October 1, 2021. Saying that 60,795 cyber attacks were repelled in 2021 alone, Karaismailoğlu stated that these attacks are mostly DDoS, phishing and spam. Regarding the issue, the Minister of Transport said, “The Cyber Security Operations Center, whose installation work has been completed within the BTK, and the USOM and the operators can be monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and if necessary, it is possible to take actions without losing time.”
Emphasis on domestic and national software
Minister Karaismailoğlu also made statements about the coronavirus pandemic. Emphasizing domestic and national software in these statements, Karaismailoğlu used the following statements:
During the epidemic, 750 fake conference applications and 31 thousand 132 vulnerabilities in remote management services were detected using artificial intelligence technologies with our domestic and national applications AVCI, AZAD and KASIRGA. 133 malware reviews and 612 malware information related to the new type of coronavirus (COVID-19) were shared with SOMEs. 2,392 malicious droppers (small program that downloads noble malware) and command and control centers related to COVID-19 have been blocked. With the ATMACA project, which works integrated with KASIRGA, the risks of more than 200 vulnerabilities were proactively prevented (testing whether it actually works when a vulnerability is detected) with regular checks for each of the 16 million IP addresses in total. Domestic and national KULE software was also developed in order to manage data more efficiently by expert analysts and to deliver information about cyber security deficiencies detected to relevant parties more quickly.
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