Minister Opstelten of Security and Justice last Thursday, the Cyber Security Council ge lwa installed. The council will in the coming months, a threat assessment, draw up, with as goal the Dutch cyber security to improve.
The establishment of the new advisory board comes from the national strategy for cybersecurity. Presidents of the new council are KPN ceo Eelco Blok and Erik Akerboom, the National Coordinator for counter-Terrorism. In total, the council consists of fourteen members drawn from business, science and government. Among others, Jan Kees Goet, deputy head of the AIVD and the national police AGENCY police chief Ruud Bik have a seat in the advisory body.
As the main task of the council must make a threat assessment, preparation, as National Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Erik Akerboom to Tweakers.net know: “We see that in the area of cybersecurity is very much happening, both in the public sector as in business. We need these initiatives within the council together and the priorities in application.” The opinion was prepared by GovCert, which the participants of the council the necessary input will provide.
Akerboom says that the new advisory body plans to draw up a more co-ordinated joint response to a potential cyber attack or large-scale hack: “however, It is not our plan to create new institutions to establish,” says Akerboom.
According to the national coordinator should be invested in research and development so that both public authorities and companies have sufficient in-house knowledge to cybersecurity issues to address. Also advocates Akerboom for a higher level of awareness to the citizen, but what this means has yet to be determined.
Also, the National Coordinator for counter-Terrorism that the policy not only to repressive means must intervene with threats of the digital safety, but also that the industry and government need to better anticipate trends that are on the internet manifest. “We need not only the issues of the day,” says Akerboom.
After the publication of the threat assessment, in October, that it must be ready, will the Cyber Security Council to keep contact with the National Cyber Security Centre. This will open on 1 January 2012 doors to the ict security in the Dutch government and the business community to keep an eye on, and possibly intervene if it is threatened.