activity report 2011.pdf

price establishment, sustainable and safe development of the nuclear component of the national energy system, the problem of alternative energies);  Vulnerabilities in the functioning of the critical infrastructures and support the development strategies in the field;  Systemic dysfunctions in providing vital services for the population, especially in the fields of health and education, as well as in the functioning of the social protection system;  Risks having impact on ensuring the adequate quality of the environment, as well as on meeting the European standards in the field;  Activities having impact on constitutional values or on human rights and freedoms;  The activities of certain intelligence services from states having different or opposite interests to our national interests;  Cross-border risks primarily regarding the activities of organized crime groups, smuggling, illegal migration, drug trafficking, cybernetic offences, CBRN proliferation, clandestine programs regarding conventional weapons or weapons of mass destruction and carriers;  Terrorism associated risks due to the presence on the Romanian territory of certain extremist groups or individuals, amplified by the tensed evolutions in fields where terrorism is active;  Cybernetic attacks on national IT&C infrastructures. The Service’s ability to provide for an efficient answer to the new types of risks and threats to the national security is being altered by the legal framework in the field, which no longer meets the whole spectrum of contemporary challenges. The dynamics of the international security environment entails a continuous readjustment of the 33 responsibilities and abilities of the institutions in the field of intelligence, which triggers the adoption of a new set of laws in the field of national security. VII.2. Objectives and lines of action for 2012 The Service shall focus on the following objectives and lines of action, set up in compliance with the Strategic Program for 2011 – 2015 “SRI in the Information Age and SRI Intelligence Strategy: 1. Develop the capacity to know, prevent and counter risks and threats to the national security, precisely to protect and promote the national values and interests. Lines of action:  Organize the operational activity of the Service on priorities, regulated in compliance with the relevant national documents in the field, as well as with the requests/needs of the decision makers and the evolutions in the security context. Priorities: - improve the methodologies for issuing risks maps, which is part of the management of risks to the national security; - provide for a real-time operational management, which allows the assignment of tasks and adoption of decisions, the coordination and audit of their achievement; - optimize the mechanisms of coordination/cooperation between the central and the territorial structures, in order to develop an integrated management of certain risks at national level;  ensure the capacity of operational analysis and strengthen the role of the activity of intelligence in order to support the strategic decision. Priorities: - extend the use of analytical trans-sectorial formats, by using network-type solutions or assistance platforms; - create and develop data processing tools dedicated to the analytical field, especially certain applications for the evaluation of risks, in order to support the strategic analysis and the early warning component; - increase the analytical capacity, namely OSINT and SIGINT, with a focus on cybernetic threats; - comply efficiently with the beneficiaries’ needs and adapt the communication with them to the new technological reality; - rigorously select and continuously train the personnel qualified in the field of analysis; - set up platforms dedicated to the collection of learnt lessons and to the preservation of the institutional memory; 34   strengthen the mechanism of offering assistance and legal support of the specific activity, in order to consolidate the steps towards briefing and notifying the criminal investigation and prosecution bodies. Priorities: - improve the legal counselors’ analytical expertise and forecast capacity, which allows the prediction of evolutions or challenges with a potential growing risk; - together with other relevant authorities, support the efforts meant to improve the legal framework in the field of national security; - actively contribute to providing for information and enforcing the European Community legislation relevant to the activities in the field of national security;  strengthen the institutional ability in the sense of achieving SRI responsibilities in the fields where the institution has got authoritative status (preventing and counteracting terrorism, protection of classified information, transportation of the correspondence containing state secrets and restricted information, carrying out the interception and developing the relationship with the national communication operators, cyber-intelligence); 2. Draw up an integrative communication and information technology infrastructure and provide for the necessary technological tools necessary for the increase of the Service’s output under secure and efficient conditions. Lines of action:  Implement step by step various solutions for enhancing the value of the new technologies in order to obtain and process information coming from all categories of sources and to adapt to the conceptual and methodological modifications brought to the activity of intelligence;  Develop step by step the capacity and tools of storing, accessing and managing data and information, irrespective of their source;  Study, produce and develop specific technology and equipment, in correlation to the evolutions in the cybernetic environment;  Make intra-institutional flows (informational-decisional and cooperative) efficient and amplify data processing within the internal management processes (which shall facilitate a rapid data and information exchange); 3. Continue the modernization process of the organizational management. Lines of action:  Enhance the performance in the field of human resources management, with focus on supporting and justifying the professional performance, by using new technologies in order to draw up, develop and improve competences; 35   Develop an integrated system for managing resources in order to ensure the implementation of certain unitary and modern means of management, leadership, analysis, registration and control;  Continue the process of enforcing the internal control strategy within SRI;  Improve the public communication activity of the Service; 4. Develop and intensively use the means of internal and external communication in order to carry out SRI’s missions, promote the national security interests and abide by the institution’s commitments. Lines of action:  Extend and enhance the Service’s cooperation with other institutions within the national security system and with law enforcement agencies. Priorities: - -increase the quality and efficiency of the information exchange with the other institutions; - -intensify the cooperation between experts and organize common actions/missions; - -mutual support in carrying out the specific and technical-operative assistance tasks; - -strengthen the technological spectrum and the methods of examination and improve the technical-scientific decisions in order to support other institutions.  Active and pragmatic external relations, based on obtaining directly quantifiable benefits, by a more efficient capitalization of the tools offered by the informational era; 5. Strengthen the institutional security. Lines of action:  Evaluate and manage the counterintelligence risks triggered by the technological evolutions;  Develop the preventive character of the activities regarding the protection of the personnel and classified information;  Ensure the security of the networks, IT systems and databases;  Actively contribute to the implementation of a new legal framework in the field of national and NATO/EU classified information which are subject to certain international agreements;  Extend the technical surveillance, alarming and access control solutions for the physical security of the premises;  Implement solutions for enhancing the efficiency and saving resources regarding the transport and security of classified correspondence. 36