The head of the National Center for Cyberspace announced: "For the first time Iran was able to successfully disable Starlink terminals during the incidents of last Dey."
According to ITna from the National Center for Cyberspace, Seyed Mohammadamin Aghamiri, Secretary of the Supreme Council and head of the National Center for Cyberspace, in response to recent remarks by Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, said: part of this is posturing and creating concern and many of the claims made are technically and bandwidth-wise unfeasible and are dream-selling.
It is worth noting that Netanyahu recently threatened Iran at the United Nations General Assembly with the expansion of the Starlink network.
In this regard, Aghamiri, emphasizing the capabilities of domestic experts to confront Starlink, referred to significant actions taken in recent years to identify and counter threats in this area and added: "The country has the necessary technical and operational readiness."
The head of the National Center for Cyberspace announced: "For the first time Iran was able to successfully disable Starlink terminals during the Dey coup attempt of last year; Western media at the same time also confirmed Iran's success and the operation to disable Starlink terminals."
Aghamiri, who was speaking at the Third Internet Platforms Conference, reiterating the success of this technical operation in confronting Starlink, added: "This is one of our tools, and we have other tools to confront Starlink as well."
He emphasized: if Starlink is used for military objectives, its nature also changes and it becomes a weapon and a legitimate military target, and the country at all levels is ready to confront such threats and this issue will be managed within the framework of national governance.
Cyber insurance plan
On cybersecurity, Aghamiri said: over the past two years, a new path with an economic approach to cybersecurity in the country has been initiated and the Cyber Police has been one of the leading and coordinating bodies in this regard.
He considered "cyber insurance" one of the important pillars of this approach and added: the approvals related to cyber insurance have been ratified by the Supreme Council of Cyberspace and examples of these activities have also begun in the private sector and the security domain.
Referring to the three groups of "security assessors," "securers" and "security users," he said: these are among the capacities that must be strengthened and developed so that an economic, transparent process based on private sector participation in security is formed and helps create a safer cyberspace.
According to Aghamiri, last week the consequences and preliminary results of the cybersecurity ranking of service providers in cyberspace were presented and communicated to a set of agencies and after necessary corrections, its results will be announced to the public within the next month.
He stated: this ranking can, while helping to develop the cybersecurity industry, create a more transparent space for people so they know in which entities the data they upload on platforms to receive various services are stored and how their security status has been assessed. This action can also pave the way for greater competition among businesses in the field of security.