Prague, Dec 8 (CTK) – Jiri Lang, former chief of the Czech civilian counter-intelligence service (BIS), will probably become a new head of the National Security Office (NBU), replacing Dusan Navratil, government spokesman Martin Ayrer told CTK on Thursday.
Navratil, who headed the NBU for ten years, will assume the post of government commissioner for cyber security. He will be in charge of the preparation and establishment of the National Office for Cyber and Information Security.
The personnel changes are included in the document that Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka (Social Democrats, CSSD) and Navratil will submit to the government.
The cabinet is likely to discuss the proposed changes by the end of the year. They would take effect in January 2017.
The respective lower house committee will also debate the change at the NBU helm, according to the law.
Navratil has good preconditions for the post of the cyber security commissioner. He proved his qualification during his NBU management when he contributed to the fight with cyber crime, Sobotka said.
The National Cyber Security Centre with up to 400 employees is to protect the Czech Republic from hackers’ attacks and other security incidents. It will be seated in a rebuilt part of the former barracks in Brno-Cerne Pole, south Moravia.
The new centre will be detached from the NBU that supervises computer security in the Czech Republic.
Lang is a security expert who headed the BIS for 13 years. He left the post at his own request earlier this year.
Sobotka said then he would like Lang to keep working in the state service in the future.
Michal Koudelka, a long-time BIS officer, became a new BIS head in mid-August.
