Turkey’s first Cyber Fusion Center Inaugurated
Turkey’s first Cyber Fusion Center reporting the cyber-attacks against domestic and foreign threats ex ante was launched in Ankara. Undersecretary for Defense Industries Prof. İsmail Demir and General Manager of STM Mr. Davut Yılmaz executed the opening of the center at STM’s central headquarters. Commenting on the issue SSM Undersecretary Prof. Demir said, “Turkey has now embraced a very important capacity regarding cyber security issue with this Cyber Fusion Center existing only in a limited number of countries in the world. Cyber-attacks are considered as one of the greatest factors threatening the security of the countries in the world. Analyzing the cyber-attacks before they occur and thus preventing them bear critical importance. Today, we have taken a major step to this end”.
General Manager of STM Mr. Davut Yılmaz underlined that they passed way beyond the classical methods with this new generation Cyber Fusion Center and added, “It is impossible to detect the cyber threats which increased in number and altered their dimensions in respect of detection and the method used through classical methods. Therefore, we need to adopt a proactive approach rather than a reactive one and become aware of the threat before the attack occurs and automatically build a defensive scenario accordingly. The cyber fusion center which we launched today is the outcome of this new generation cyber security understanding and it embodies many novelties in many senses for our country. We wish this center operating with the artificial intelligence mechanisms completely developed by our company and gathering quite different disciplines to be fruitful for our country”.
Cyber Threats Could be Detected Before the Attack Occurs
With the help of the STM Cyber Fusion Center, now not only the recognized cyber threats but also the new types of threats which could not be detected yet, using developed and complicated methods could also be identified before the attack occurs and required measures could be adopted.
Vulnerability management, cyber threat intelligence, threat defense operation, cyber operation center and incident intervention management capabilities are combined with the progressive war games methods enabling especially the senior level executives to take initiative in the management of cyber incidents and the implementation of a modern cyber security approach will be provided at the Cyber Fusion Center. This center, which will constitute a novelty in all aspects, will become one of the major forces of Turkey against cyber-attacks.
What is Cyber Fusion?
Cyber Fusion stands out as a new generation approach within which data from different sources are combined and analyzed through artificial intelligence algorithms. Consequently the mechanism referred to as machine learning is utilized as part of the approach.
This approach gathering quite different disciplines is defined as a proactive concept towards determining the pattern of the attack by associating all relevant parameters and identifying the incident way ahead of its emergence and thus being prepared before the attack even occurred rather than blocking the attack as in classical cyber security approaches.
