Dimension 1

This Dimension explores the country’s capacity to develop and deliver cybersecurity strategy and enhance its cybersecurity resilience through improving its incident response, cyber defence and critical infrastructure protection capacities. This Dimension considers effective strategy and policy in delivering national cybersecurity capability, while maintaining the benefits of a cyberspace vital for government, international business and society in general.

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Details and Research Direction

This Dimension examines a how national level cybersecurity policy is formulated, how priorities are identified and agreed, and how implementation is structured and overseen. It examines specific national level capabilities required to manage incidents and crises, to ensure the security and resilience of critical national infrastructure, and to provide for effective security within the defence and national security sector.

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D1.1: National Cybersecurity Blah

Cybersecurity strategy is essential to mainstreaming a cybersecurity agenda across government because it helps prioritise cybersecurity as an important policy area, determines responsibilities and mandates of key cybersecurity government and non-governmental actors, and directs allocation of resources to the emerging and existing cybersecurity issues and priorities.

Aspects

Strategy Development: this Aspect addresses the development of a national strategy, allocation of implementation authorities across sectors and civil society, and an understanding of national cybersecurity ris

D1.2 : Incident Response and Crisis Management

This Factor addresses the capacity of the government to identify and determine characteristics of national level incidents in a systematic way. It also reviews the government’s capacity to organise, co-ordinate, and operationalise incident response, and whether cybersecurity has been integrated into the national crisis management framework.

Aspects

Identification and Categorisation of Incidents: this Aspect identifies whether internal mechanisms are in place for identifying and categorising incidents;
Organisation: this Aspect addresses the existence of a ma

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D1.3: Critical Infrastructure(CI) Protection

This Factor studies the government’s capacity to identify CI assets, the regulatory requirements specific to the cybersecurity of CI, and the implementation of good cybersecurity practice by CI operators.

Aspects

Identification: this Aspect addresses the existence of a general list of CI assets, sectors and operators, and an audit of CI assets on a regular basis;
Regulatory Requirements: this Aspect addresses the existence of regulatory requirements specific to the cybersecurity of CI; and
Operational Practice: this Aspect explores whether CI ope

D1.5 Cybersecurity in Defense and National Security

This Factor explores whether the government has the capacity to design and implement a strategy for cybersecurity within national security and defence. It also reviews the level of cybersecurity capability within the national security and defence establishment, and the collaboration arrangements on cybersecurity between civil and defence entities.

Aspects

Defence Force Cybersecurity Strategy: this Aspect addresses the existence of a strategy for supporting cybersecurity within national security and defence, and whether it is supported by appropriate legal authorities an

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Dimension 1

Details and Research Direction

Factors

D1.1: National Cybersecurity Blah

D1.2 : Incident Response and Crisis Management

D1.3: Critical Infrastructure(CI) Protection

D1.5 Cybersecurity in Defense and National Security