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Protection police: Foreign spies more interested in the Finnish critical infrastructure

the foreign intelligence act which interest the Finnish critical infrastructure has increased in recent years, the apparent protection of the police on Friday p

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Protection police: Foreign spies more interested in the Finnish critical infrastructure

the foreign intelligence act which interest the Finnish critical infrastructure has increased in recent years, the apparent protection of the police on Friday published a national security review (you move to another service).

Critical infrastructure refers to society's most important functions, such as, for example, the banking and financial sector, transport and distribution, and healthcare.

intelligence actions are more interest likely to be more also other strategic sectors oriented investments, Supo tell.

Supo, Finland is placed permanently, several dozen foreign intelligence service of the employees, i.e. spies. In addition, each year approximately the same amount of foreign spies using short operational tasks in Finland.

Supo, Finland is of particular interest to Russian and Chinese intelligence services.

Scouts interested in Finnish politics, continuous kyberoperaatioita

Foreign intelligence services operate in Finland, "persistently and systematically", Supo estimates.

Topical phenomena regarding intelligence issues vary, but the inquiry's key objectives include the Finnish policy anticipation and policy-making influence.

the protection of the police chief of the Antti Pelttari said in the announcement, that the intelligence services have a certain duration of the monitoring items.

Their in addition, recently, the central objects of interest have been, inter alia, the activities of the Finnish EU presidency, Finland's position in EU sanctions policy, the national innovation and high-tech products, said Pelttari.

an overview of human intelligence in addition to Finland, are constantly subjected to kyberoperaatioita, whose goal is espionage, technical environment mapping or influence.

the Public administration in addition, the subject has also been a corporate key product development knowledge and individual person of a confidential communication.

the Review noted that the critical infrastructure from ending up in kybervakoilu or influencing actively engaged in the state control pose a threat to the national security, even before spying the state decides to use his power.

This is a reason to take advance account of critical infrastructure projects, such as the 5g-network related investments, Pelttari says.

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