Sergiu Manic
This was stated by Sergiu Manic, acting director of the Information Technology and Cyber Security Service (STISC), commenting on the Court of Auditors’ findings regarding the government’s MCloud platform. According to him, the platform, which is already ten years old, is outdated and lacks sufficient resources to accommodate all the information systems originally intended for consolidation. The lack of funding has prevented the consolidation of IT resources scattered across various institutions, and the platform does not have the necessary capacity to integrate them all.
“To begin with, STISC is set to develop a new data centre to house the information systems and equipment that were due to be consolidated from other institutions. The plans were drawn up three years ago, when the investment was estimated at 220 million lei. At present, this figure needs to be multiplied by four. Building a new data centre with sufficient equipment could cost around 50 million euros,” said Sergiu Manec.
However, the official believes that the initial strategy of concentrating all resources in a single location needs to be re-examined, as this could pose risks to the security of the infrastructure. According to him, “the best resilience strategy is diversification”.
“Ten years ago, the idea was to consolidate everything at a single point. The truth is that, if we analyse what has happened recently, having a single point that can be attacked or that could fail at any moment is probably no longer the best strategy. A working group has been set up at government level to examine, amongst other things, whether to continue with the original strategy or whether adjustments are needed. In today’s reality, concentrating on a single point could pose more risks than benefits. For about a year now, a group within the State Chancellery has been developing a vision for what the next-generation MCloud should look like,” stated the acting director of STISC.
According to a report by the Court of Auditors on the management of the MCloud platform for the period 2019–2025, 148 of the 407 information systems that were due to be migrated to the shared platform (36.4 per cent) continue to operate outside it. Maintaining their own server infrastructures in 27 institutions cost the public budget 79.4 million lei in 2025 alone.
This story was translated with the assistance of artificial intelligence.The translation was also reviewed by the Logos Press editorial team.
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