Digi Mobile. Vodafone, Telekom, Orange, AMAZING announcement for Romania

Digi Mobile. Vodafone, Telekom, Orange, are the reason for a very important announcement made in Romania, here is what the telecommunications operators have achieved for their customers.

Digi Mobil. Vodafone, Telekom, Orange are at the center of a very important announcement for Romania, which shows us how much the services we currently have in our country have evolved. More precisely, those from ANCOM announced that the security incidents reported by Digi Mobil, or other telecommunications operators, resolve the security incidents that occur during the year much faster, which is great news.

Digi Mobil. If in 2017 it took 8 hours for a security incident to be resolved by the operators, in 2018 the average dropped to 5 hours, so a reduction of almost half in the course of a year. Although the time required to resolve a security incident decreased by 3 hours, their number increased by 66%, so Digi Mobil and the rest of the operators experience several annual attacks against the infrastructure.

Digi Mobile. Vodafone, Telekom, Orange, AMAZING announcement for Romania

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The number of customers affected by security incidents of telecom operators between 2016 and 2018.

Digi Mobil. You can see in the image above which services are most affected by these security incidents, and mobile telephony and SMS are the most vulnerable to this type of problem. In 2018, 556 incidents were recorded with a significant impact on the security and integrity of the networks in our country, millions of customers of Digi Mobil and other telecommunications operators, being affected because of them.

"Reported data shows that if in 2017, on average, a security incident was resolved in more than 8 hours, last year operators managed to reduce incident resolution times to an average of 5 hours. On the other hand, the number of security incidents increased by 66% compared to 2017. The most connections affected by significant incidents are mobile and SMS (more than 7,6 million connections), followed by mobile internet services ( over 4,7 million connections), fixed telephony (over 1 million connections) and fixed internet (approximately 1 million connections), the least affected being those for the retransmission of audiovisual programs (approximately 438 thousand connections)."

Digi Mobil. Regarding the areas most affected by these security incidents, well, Constanta is in first place, followed by Dolj, Teleorman and Olt. The counties with the fewest security incidents that affected the customers of Digi Mobil, and of the other telecom companies, are Ialomita, Bihor and Salaj, the interest being, as it seems, less to cause headaches for operators in these geographical areas .

Digi Mobil. The era we live in forces us to be always vigilant because cyber attacks have become the "new normal", and this has also put the telecommunications companies on guard, because they have improved the speed with which they solve these problems.