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2nd Balkan Security Forum,
15 - 16 June 2006, CAPSIS Hotel, Thessaloniki, Greece
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New technologies raise serious issues for the individual rights and the protection of personal data (RFID, Internet etc) that require State vigilance and synergies among the supervisory institutions that will facilitate best coordination of efforts and will inform users and electronic services providers. Electronic security and the fight against electronic crime is a common responsibility of the state, the private sector and ICT users.
The above were the basic conclusions of the 2nd Conference on the Electronic Crime and Computer and Telecommunications Systems Security that Southeastern Europe Telecommunications and Informatics Research Institute (INA) organised in collaboration with MD5 on 15-16 June 2006, in Thessaloniki.
The conference was organised under the aegis of Macedonia- Thrace Ministry and the General Secretariat for Information Systems, Ministry of Economy - Finance. SPACE Hellas sponsored the event that attracted great interest and wide attendance from institutions and organisations active in the field.
The participants offered inputs that covered a wide frame of topics on electronic security and presented the latest developments in the sector. Various issues were raised among which the economic cost for the Greek state, the private sector and the ICT user linked to telecommunications fraud. Economic losses in Greece from software piracy reached 157 million Euro for year 2005. The participants stressed that the absence of secure networks and information systems minimizes the benefits generated from the use of ICT. Electronic safety cannot be ensured by national borders and requires international collaboration and exploitation International and European Policies for intellectual property rights and security of transactions. Small and medium-sized enterprises and home users find themselves at a loss before rapid technological developments and need reliable assistance on issues of eSecurity. Developing countries in the Balkan region aspiring to gain access to an important part of the outsourcing market require significant reform in order to achieve this goal. Electronic Security has become a prerequisite and not a luxury in modern society and therefore the application of the proper legislative framework should be facilitated by providing suitable training to law enforcement and judiciary staff.
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Southeastern Europe Telecommunications & Informatics Research Institute
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