National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-EE

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) stands for the so-called national central cyber authorities across Europe. These are the authorities that deal with the cyber security and critical infrastructure of the state’s public sector and are the competent authorities and contact points for cyber security for the purposes of the directive on security of network and information systems (the NIS directive). In Estonia, in accordance with the Cybersecurity Act, this authority is the RIA, more specifically the Cyber Security Centre of the authority. 

As effective and active international cooperation is needed to ensure national cyber security, and as cyber ecosystems are structured differently from country to country, a universal designation NCSC will help the institution using the designation stand out as a national point of contact for cyber security, both domestically and internationally. There are cyber security centres with a similar structure and tasks in Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark.