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Government Launches New Strategy to Enhance National Cyber Security

In an effort to address the growing threats to its cyberspace, the government has unveiled a new strategy aimed at ensuring the country’s defenses are evolved, reinforced, and responsive enough to counter such threats.

Focus Areas

The strategy outlines three broad areas of focus over the next five years:

• Expanded Intelligence and Law Enforcement: The government plans to expand its efforts to identify, anticipate, and disrupt hostile cyber activities through improved intelligence collection and exploitation.
• Technology Development and Deployment: This will involve deepening the understanding of threats, strengthening the security of public and private sector systems and networks, and disrupting malicious activity. Partnership with industry is key to developing Active Cyber Defense measures.
• Cyber Incident Response: The government has established a new team to manage national cyber incidents and provide an authoritative voice and center of expertise.

Principles

The strategy emphasizes the following principles in its approach to national cyberspace security:

• Treating all forms of cyber-attack as serious and defending itself at all costs.
• Acting in accordance with national and international laws.
• Protecting and promoting core values such as democracy, rule of law, human rights, and privacy.

Collective Effort

The strategy emphasizes the need for a collective effort to secure the national cyberspace. Each individual has an important part to play:

• Citizens are urged to take practical steps to secure their assets in the virtual world, just as they would in the physical world.
• Businesses and organizations are expected to take all reasonable steps to protect personal data and build resilience against cyber threats. Failure to do so may result in significant risks being posed to citizens’ privacy and security.

Commitment

The government has committed to bringing about significant improvements in national cyber security over the next five years, with a focus on driving change through commercial pressures and government incentives.