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Trends in Security Information
The HSD Trendmonitor is designed to provide access to relevant content on various subjects in the safety and security domain, to identify relevant developments and to connect knowledge and organisations. The safety and security domain encompasses a vast number of subjects. Four relevant taxonomies (type of threat or opportunity, victim, source of threat and domain of application) have been constructed in order to visualize all of these subjects. The taxonomies and related category descriptions have been carefully composed according to other taxonomies, European and international standards and our own expertise.
In order to identify safety and security related trends, relevant reports and HSD news articles are continuously scanned, analysed and classified by hand according to the four taxonomies. This results in a wide array of observations, which we call ‘Trend Snippets’. Multiple Trend Snippets combined can provide insights into safety and security trends. The size of the circles shows the relative weight of the topic, the filters can be used to further select the most relevant content for you. If you have an addition, question or remark, drop us a line at info@securitydelta.nl.
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The digital infrastructure is critical for the functioning of society
In the past year, a great difference can be seen in the cyber security resilience of companies and organisations. Experts are concerned that this gap will expand in the future. Also, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, more processes have been digitised, thereby increasing the importance of digital security even further.
The digital and physical worlds are no longer distinguishable and digital processes shape the nervous system of society. They are indispensable for the undisturbed functioning of society. Living, working, travelling, paying: we live on a digital infrastructure. Just like air, water, road and rail, the digital infrastructure must also be and remain in order. If digital processes do not work properly, this can have a major impact on society. This is evident from the annual Cybersecuritybeeld Nederland (CSBN) by the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism and NCTV), which was drawn up in collaboration with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
Organisations are unable to do their work, personal data are exposed and facilities may break down. Examples include the hack at a cheese packaging company, a data leak at an ICT service provider for car companies and an ICT malfunction at hospitals that forced people to cancel appointments.
In the past year, NCSC has seen great differences in the resilience of companies and organisations. Experts are very concerned that this gap will widen in the future. In addition, even more processes have been digitised due to the circumstances surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic. The importance of digital security has therefore also increased further. In addition, the threat level has developed further and the threat from state actors is increasingly mixing with the threat from cybercriminals.