Secret data on Latvian crooks and robbers will move to the cloud 0 9

The Ministry of the Interior intends to transfer important databases from the Information Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to storage in the "clouds."

Early Warning System

The infrastructure for this operation is provided by the Latvian State Radio and Television Center. The following will be stored on its basis:

• The E-KRASS information criminal procedure system;
• The unified civil defense and fire safety management platform VUCAP;
• The ABS+ early warning system;
• The systems for searching for individuals/wanted persons, invalid and missing objects PEM/M*ZO;
• The unified event registration system (V*R).

It is evident that such a collection of information is critically important for national security. Therefore, according to the procedure adopted today by the Cabinet of Ministers, limited access decisions will be applied to it.

How much does it cost?

The computer architecture will be built on segmented sites. Funding will be provided from the European Union funds and the European Regional Development Fund, including from those resources that were allocated to Latvia but previously not distributed.

The document from the department of Rihards Kozlovskis mentions, in particular, the figure of 3,007,200 euros. Of course, for security and order, nothing is too much, but it seems that the state budget was approved by the Saeima just recently, so why was such an important operation forgotten?

Meanwhile, as experts note, cloud data storage is associated with risks of confidential information leakage, data loss due to provider failures or account hacking, as well as threats related to improper access configuration and dependence on the internet.

The main dangers include phishing, DDoS attacks, the use of weak passwords, and data interception during transmission. Insider threats come from employees of the cloud provider itself who have technical access to the servers.

Hackers at a Distance

As recently reported by the national institute for preventing cyber threats CERT.LV, "the level of cyber threats in Latvia remains high with a sustained upward trend."

"Since the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, the number of cyber incidents in the Latvian cyberspace has increased sixfold — in the fourth quarter of 2025, the historically highest number of manually processed cyber incidents by CERT.LV (923) was recorded, and the number of installations at risk of disruption increased eightfold, reaching a record level during the reporting period (731,783). Attacks are both financially and politically motivated, and geopolitical factors continue to be an important catalyst for the threat. The intensity and complexity of attacks are increasing, as is the attackers' ability to adapt…"

Of course, all this does not mean that we need to print black-and-white photographs of thieves again. But still, the most reliable system unit remains the one that is not connected to the internet.