Estonia, Internet, Legislation, Technology

In the course of creating a national cyber defence strategy, a plan was developed to double a certain amount of data and services necessary for a state to work in the servers in countries that are in friendly relations with Estonia.

Certain Estonian embassies already have servers that maintain copies of data environments and registers of national importance. The fact that these servers require rooms complying with specific standards from embassies that are already having space problems was one of the reasons leading to the new plan. Namely, Estonia is planning to start renting space in server parks with high security standards that are located in countries that are friendly towards Estonia.

The so-called “data embassies plan” was greenlighted on Tuesday, and that means that the programme will be proceeded with.

Taavi Kotka, Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications in charge of communications and state information systems, said that data embassies will help secure digital continuity of the state and its work in potential crisis situations, such as cyber attacks or, as an extreme example, also occupying the territory of the country.