SIA takes data security to the highest level for all registry offices in Spain
- Information available and protected, always
- Legal security and data security for citizens and businesses
SIA, the Indra Group company specialising in cybersecurity, has provided the Spanish Association of Registrars, under the name Project Réplica, with an advanced and cyber-resilient system for the local encrypted copying and replication of its data and files, with its recent transition from paper to the digital world. This solution guarantees compliance with the applicable regulations required for the organisation and its more than 1,200 offices, which now have a unified procedure and the highest level of security for the information they handle.
The Association of Registrars, which brings together all the property, commercial and movable property registries in Spain, required a uniform system that would meet the strict security requirements demanded by its digital transformation, given the sensitivity of the data it manages. The transition from public registry to the digital sphere had to be carried out with the necessary measures to guarantee electronic legal security throughout the process.
SIA has rolled out this solution in record time for all the country's registries. For Roberto Espina, CEO of SIA, ‘this is a flagship project in which we have integrated all the technological capabilities and specialised equipment necessary for a challenge of this magnitude; furthermore, with this initiative, we are enabling the organisation to move forward with its digital transformation strategy in a completely secure manner’.
Information available and protected, always
Following its implementation, the offices affiliated with the Spanish Association of Registrars operate uniformly in the areas of IT, cybersecurity and backup, managing between five and six million files per day, with peaks of up to eight and nine million per day, and even reaching 20 million at times when the history of all records has been replicated.
Now, information is encrypted at source in real time and replicated in central services in different, geographically separate data processing centres. The Réplica system also allows data and files to be recovered from the registers in the event of a disaster or temporary loss.
As José Soriano, director of the Information Systems Service of the Spanish Association of Registrars, points out, ‘this process, which is more agile, secure and intuitive in terms of access to information by registrars, avoids manual information management and leaves evidence for traceability, thus guaranteeing total legal security and transparency. It also improves the provision of a public registry service in line with the demands of the 21st century’.
Until then, the registries operated using storage systems for copy management, which required standardising and strengthening cybersecurity in view of the risks involved in the daily management of a large volume of sensitive information. SIA's solution combines the necessary capabilities to respond effectively to this challenge: encryption of information at source using electronic certificates, immediate replication in three secure data processing centres, and service availability and continuity.
Legal security and data security for citizens and businesses
The Réplica initiative not only meets the Association's technical requirements for secure information processing and copying, but also complies with the high standards of the applicable regulations in this area, ensuring compliance with Article 239 of Law 11/2023 on the digitisation of registry proceedings, which seeks to guarantee electronic legal security in the transition of all records to the digital world, and the National Security Scheme (ENS).
The project also endorses SIA's position as a strategic partner of the Public Administration, one of the most cyber-attacked sectors, for the protection of its infrastructure, its information and that of citizens. Furthermore, given the undoubted growth that information will experience in this and other areas, this is a scalable project that can evolve in proportion to the volume of data.
