Yesterday, ITcare, represented by Andrian Visnevschi and Ruslan Bruma, attended the Moldova Cybersecurity Forum 2026, organized by the Moldova Cybersecurity Agency (ASC).
The maturity of this year’s conversations stood out. Across the local market, cybersecurity is shifting from a compliance line item to a board-level discipline. Public institutions, regulators, and private companies are increasingly speaking the same language, and the pace of national investment into cyber capability is visibly accelerating year over year.
This matters because of where Moldova sits. We are at a geographic and political crossroads between Europe and Asia, and that position carries weight. Since the country’s path toward European integration accelerated, the volume and sophistication of attacks targeting our infrastructure has grown. The forum addressed this openly, and that was the right tone to set.
The most insightful session for us was the panel on Critical Infrastructure: Policy, Cooperation, and Response, moderated by Gheorghe Lapteanu from the Agency for Cybersecurity, with Ivana Arapu (Orange), Andrei Ceban (Premier Energy Distribution), Nicolai Romanschi (Moldindconbank), and Alexey Shulenkov (DAAC digital). Telecom, energy, banking, and IT services in one room, talking honestly about incident response, cross-sector coordination, and the realities of defending essential services. Cross-industry conversations at that level are rare and genuinely useful.
The second panel that stayed with us was No Juniors, No Seniors: Fixing Cybersecurity’s Broken Talent Pipeline, moderated by Marius Dumitrascu, with Ludmila Peca, Dinu Turcanu, Gabriela Ojog, Adrian Manole, and Octavian Oprea. The problem statement alone is something every CTO in the region recognizes. There are people who can configure a firewall, and there are people who can defend a network under pressure. The gap between the two keeps widening, and the conversation about deeper collaboration between academia and industry was overdue.
Cybersecurity work in Moldova is no longer niche. It is national infrastructure work, and the people doing it deserve more visibility.
