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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.
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Preparation for digital disruption needs to become part of the security policies aimed at the continuation of societal processes
Digital disruption, whether caused by cyberattacks or not, increasingly impact vital infrastructures in our society. They bring high economic and societal costs with them. Lastly, attacks on critical infrastructures are used in geopolitical conflicts, with a blurring concept of borders and growing influences on processes and strategic positions of other countries.
In their report “Preparation for digital disruption”, the WRR states that preparation for digital disruption needs to become part of the security policies aimed at the continuation of societal processes. Cybersecurity alone, however important, is not enough. Resilience to digital disruption requires action from all actors and stakeholders in a network or chain.
Digital disruption, whether caused by cyberattacks such as WannaCry or NotPetya or other factors such as human factors or broken servers, increasingly impact vital infrastructures in our society. Additionally, they bring high economic and societal cost with them which can run into hundreds of millions of euros, and as digitization develops a growing risk of potential damage or victims. Lastly, attacks on critical infrastructures are used in geopolitical conflicts, with a blurring concept of borders and growing influences on processes and strategic positions of other countries. In order to better prepare for these increasing threats, the WRR suggests the following:
- Create a clearly outlined lawful authority for digital crisis/emergency response teams;
- Establish a Cyberdependency overview, which clarifies which parties, processes and services are crucial for the vital processes that our society depends on;
- More attention to be directed at chains and networks that support vital processes, and whether digitization of these processes call for a change in prioritizing;
- Stimulate research into the feasibility of a Dutch or European cyberpool for insurance of damage caused by digital disruption;
- Use national and international incidentdata to learn from previous cases and improve prevention for future disruptions.