A bird’s-eye view of an ever-changing ICT landscape
The advent of ICTs has spurred innovation, cultivated knowledge, encouraged free expression, and increased our economic prosperity. At the same time, the number of vulnerabilities exploitable by criminals, governments and hacktivists increase in similar fashion, leading to severe financial loss and a decrease of trust in ICT services and infrastructures. The Netherlands considers itself one of the leading ICT countries, promotes itself as a ‘safe place to do business’ and aspires to be the digital gateway of Europe. But is it investing in the right places to match these ambitions and counter these risks?
This factsheet created by HCSS takes stock of both the opportunities and the threats that cyberspace and increased digitalization poses to the Netherlands, and compares it to other countries. It includes meta-analyses of over thirty datasets, reports and articles from public organizations (such as ENISA, the OECD, the World Economic Forum) on the digital economy and cybersecurity spending and cybersecurity companies (such as Symantec, McAfee, and FireEye) on threat actors and their tools and victims and visualizes the findings.
Download the factsheet here.
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