Ministers and officials will deploy a new secure communications system to protect sensitive information from intruders.
A new secure communications system has been developed for ministers and civil servants to ensure sensitive information cannot be intercepted. The Belgian Secure Communications (BSC) system was developed entirely in Belgium and is based on a closed network. BSC is the successor to the outdated Belgian Intelligence Network Information Infrastructure security system.
Belgian Secure Communications (BSC) was developed in Belgium and is designed to protect secret or sensitive information between ministers, top officials and diplomats. The new system went into operation this week and consists of various components. It contains a closed network with secret locations for secret data traffic and video conferences, with self-developed smartphones and laptops.
During a Belgian economic mission to China in 2019, the Van Tigchelt cabinet registered 135 hacking attempts per hour on the mobile phones of delegation members. The BSC’s predecessor was the Belgian Intelligence Network Information Infrastructure, which was developed by the Ministry of Defense in 2007 but is now obsolete.