The government is presenting a new international cyber strategy for 2023-2028 to counter digital threats.
Why is an international cyber strategy necessary?
Digitization has been the driving force behind our development in recent decades. We communicate faster and easier with each other and economies and sectors such as healthcare, transport and energy were able to develop more quickly. This development will accelerate in the coming years with the emergence of new digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum.
Further digitization also entails significant risks. Our national security, our earning power and the safe online environment of citizens are already threatened on a daily basis by countries and criminals. This threat translates through cyber operations – to spy, sabotage and spread disinformation. We see that the geopolitical dynamics in the physical world are also emphatically playing out in the digital environment.
This dynamic is reinforced by the availability and deployment of new and cheaper cyber resources that are deployed by countries for cyber operations aimed at espionage, sabotage or disinformation, but also to monitor and pressure their own population (lawyers, politicians, human rights defenders and journalists) online.
