{"id":5922,"date":"2026-05-11T10:08:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/5922\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:08:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:08:05","slug":"cyberwar-is-already-in-poland-polish-deputy-prime-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/5922\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCyberwar is already in Poland,\u201d Polish deputy prime minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Poland is already at war with Russia in cyberspace, and its deputy prime minister, Krzysztof Gawkowski, believes the country must be clear-eyed about it.<\/p>\n

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\n Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Affairs Krzysztof Gawkowski
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Photo. CyberDefence24<\/p>\n

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Affairs Krzysztof Gawkowski used Defence24 Days, the largest security conference in Central and Eastern Europe, held in Warsaw on 6\u20137 May, to underline Poland\u2019s growing cyber resilience against Russia\u2019s ongoing cyberwar.<\/p>\n

He admitted that although the cyber domain has become central to national security, Poland is still correcting years of \u201cneglect and delay\u201d. Gawkowski particularly emphasised cybersecurity\u2019s cross-cutting nature, noting that there is now virtually no major area of the Polish state where cyber does not play a role.<\/p>\n

A Russian war that is already here <\/p>\n

Cybersecurity gained particular public attention after the Polish government revealed in January that the country\u2019s energy infrastructure had come under a major cyberattack at the end of last year. Although Poland successfully defended itself, the incident exposed the very real risk of blackouts and large-scale energy disruptions resulting from hostile cyber operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201dCyberwar is already in Poland,\u201d the deputy prime minister declared, adding that it is being waged by Russia with support from Belarus. Poland now faces hundreds of cyberattacks every day, and their number is rising. Gawkowski argued that \u201dtransparency about threats builds resilience,\u201d both by naming the attacks and identifying their source. He also claimed that Poland is already among the leading countries in countering cyber operations, with its cyber forces neutralising 99% of attacks.<\/p>\n

Gawkowski also argued that the Polish government had \u201cdone everything necessary\u201d on the legislative front. He pointed to two recently adopted cyber-related documents: the Cybersecurity Strategy of the Republic of Poland 2026\u20132029 and the amendment to the National Cybersecurity System. The latter will expand the list of protected entities from several hundred, mostly critical-infrastructure operators, to more than 40,000 organisations across 19 sectors.<\/p>\n

Digital sovereignty and fact-checking against Russia and tech giants <\/p>\n

In the discussion, he also stressed the importance of digital sovereignty, especially vis-\u00e0-vis foreign tech giants that often control strategically sensitive data. In Gawkowski\u2019s view, Poland must secure greater control over the data centres, servers, and cloud infrastructure that handle its public data in order to better protect critical state systems, warning that leaving them in the hands of external actors would be a serious mistake.<\/p>\n

The deputy prime minister also insisted that Poland must develop its own fact-checking platforms, pointing to the failure of tech giants to effectively counter disinformation. This tied into Gawkowski\u2019s announcement later that day of a new public-media initiative, \u201eSprawdzam To\u201d (\u201eI\u2019m checking that\u201d), aimed at combating manipulation and false narratives. At its centre will be the website sprawdzamto.pl<\/a>, which is set to regularly publish news, analyses, and reports identifying and explaining cases of media manipulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poland is already at war with Russia in cyberspace, and its deputy prime minister, Krzysztof Gawkowski, believes the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4903,3903,3379,4906,4904,4907,9,126,4905],"class_list":["post-5922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-cyber","tag-cyber-security","tag-defence24-days","tag-defence24-days-2026","tag-disinformation","tag-manipulation","tag-poland","tag-russia","tag-russian-cyber-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}