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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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Four cybersecurity risks to national security according to Cyber Security Assessment Netherlands 2021
Cybersecurity remains inextricably interlinked with national security: cybersecurity breaches can lead to social disruption. The cyber threat keeps evolving as actors continue to develop and the geopolitical context keeps changing, and is also impacted by
current events such as COVID-19. Resilience also continues to evolve. Whether there is an adequate balance between the various interests, the cyber threat and resilience is a question that needs to be resolved through governance and/or risk management.
In this Cybersecurity Assessment Netherlands, the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism identifies four risks to national security:
1. Unauthorised access to information (and possibly its publication), in particular through espionage. Examples include espionage targeting communications within the central government or the development of innovative technologies.
2. Inaccessibility of processes, due to sabotage and/or the use of ransomware or preparations for this. Examples include infiltration in processes that ensure the distribution of electricity.
3. Breaches of (the security of ) cyberspace, such as through the abuse of global IT supply chains.
4. Large-scale outages: a situation where one or more processes are disrupted due to natural or technical causes or unintentional human action.
Espionage, sabotage and outages have already been extensively discussed in the CSAN 2020. The risks associated with this (risks 1, 2 and 4) are still relevant. Espionage and sabotage are also explained in detail in the publication ‘State Actors Threat Assessment’. This CSAN discusses risks 2 (specifically ransomware, chapter 4) and 3 (breaches of cyberspace, chapter 5) in detail.