ABSTRACT
The Slovenian Computer Emergencies Response Team (SI-CERT) was established as a public institute in 1995 to handle reports of security incidents. As reported by SI-CERT, the 1990s, as well as the first decade of the new millennium, saw Slovenia become a place of ever-increasing IT tensions, exploited mostly by foreign operations as a place for botnet connections and by local hackers breaking into local systems or provoking denial of service attacks (SI-CERT). This chapter describes Slovenia as strongly dependent on the continuity and reliability of information systems in both private and public sectors, with an emphasis on the key functions of state and society, but cyber space as a potential battlefield was only briefly mentioned. By adopting the Act on Information Security, Slovenia concluded its long path of setting up a national framework for network and information security, which contained within it a national strategy, at least one response center, and a competent national authority to coordinate national-level activities.
