The function of the Baltic is constantly increasing – for example due to the critical infrastructure on it. How can we keep her safe? Mr Grzegorz Krasnodębski, co-founder and vice president of the Marine Cybersecurity Centre, knows a lot about this. The officer is 1 of this year's winners of the Buzdigana award awarded by the editorial board of "Polish Armed Forces".
– The staff of the Cyber safety Department of the Ministry of National Defence repeats that man is incredibly smart and helpful. To Kmdr. Krasnodębski, as they add, you can call with any problem, question, idea. He'll always choice up the telephone and make time to talk. It's not just his coworkers or his patients. Department employees know what they're saying. This is the mentioned cell full of substantive supervision of the Marine Cybersecurity Center – an innovative think tank that operates in Naval Academy. Kmdr Dr hab. Grzegorz Krasnodębski is her deputy chief, though he admits, as a young soldier, he did not even imagine that a akin institution could always arise.
– erstwhile I graduated from the Military method Academy in 1994, I heard from time to time that cybernetics were lost troops. That in the army, we won't have much chance to grow, and so to advance. But the future turned out to be completely different – he recalls. By the time he got to this place, he'd come a long way. He went to the sea from Warsaw University. He put on a navy uniform and began his service in the Naval Computer discipline Team. He was active in designing, analyzing and creating systems liable for, among others, the collection and circulation of data. In a word: invisible to the bare eye of the bloodstream, without which it is impossible to imagine the functioning of both the naval forces and the army in general. Kmdr Krasnodębski spent 10 years in the band. All this time, however, he was drawn to technological work. In 2004, he made his point – he went to the Naval Academy.
He was initially active in crisis management. He even became the head of a plant in the Division of Command and Marine Operations. He taught classes with students, defended his PhD, then habilitation. In 2015, he assumed the duties of the Dean of Science. – I spent quite a few time on issues related to protection of critical infrastructure – remembers. The subject became crucial not only in the technological dimension. Submarine transmission installations were arriving in the Baltic. In Świnoujście Gazoport was launched, which opened up the country for the supply of liquefied fuel from the mediate East, Poland went on to make its own wind farms, and slow matured the task of building Baltic tube – a pipeline pressing gas from Norway. It was clear that specified infrastructure had to be decently secured. While the West continued to fear global terrorism, there was a fresh threat on the horizon. In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea, shortly besides started a war in east Ukraine. At the same time, the Kremlin sharpened anti-Nathan rhetoric. The hazard of hybrid attacks on selected targets grew, and the impacts themselves could have taken various forms – from classical diversion to hacker attacks.
– This was an area where my professional competences and interests were increasingly penetrating. After all, I was a computer scientist and at the same time I specialized in crisis management. My superiors decided to usage this – admits kmdr Krasnodębski. The officer took part in creating fresh courses of survey – cybersecurity in civilian and military studies, but besides postgraduate studies, which AMW created in cooperation with economical partners. In 2020, he faced a completely fresh challenge. The Ministry of Defence then decided to set up the Marine Cybersecurity Centre (MCC), and he took care of its creation. He took up the position of vice-director, which he holds until today.
MCC is simply a think tank that deals with issues of widely understood cybersecurity in the maritime area. – We cooperate with many institutions, not only military ones, even the Police Academy in Szczytno. We're conducting an analysis. the risks that happen within the Baltic. We worked, for example, to measure the risks associated with the construction and operation of Baltic tube or wind farms. We effort to spread cognition during cyclically organized projects, as calculated by kmdr Krasnodębski. These include, for example, the summertime and Winter Cybersecurity School. They are aimed primarily at critical infrastructure operators. The participants of the weekly workshops have the chance to perceive to lectures by cybersecurity specialists and take part in the exercises.
The MCC is our pride. We created an exceptionally strong expert squad there, and this happened mostly thanks to the imagination and contacts of Grzegorz Krasnodębski. due to the fact that he is the actual father of this institution – Mr.Bartłomiej Pączek, vice president for the discipline of the Naval Academy admits. Mr Krasnodębski has been working with Mr Krasnodębski for almost 20 years. He praises him for his leadership and organizational abilities, for his industriousness, but besides his inherent modesty. “Sometimes erstwhile I left the Academy after hours, I saw the light on in Gregory’s office. He wrote something, read it, took care of the details of his next ventures. But erstwhile he did, he preferred to stay in the shadows. This was the case, for example, with the MCC, in which he took the position of vice chief and... he took on a fresh task – compliments the proctor. – due to the fact that if Grzegorz dedicates himself to any purpose, he can be left with this work and wait for its results. These will surely be good – summarizes kmdr Donut.
