Together against cyber attacks
The federal government and the business community are working together to protect themselves against cyber risks.
Two years ago, the Federal Council issued a "National strategy to protect Switzerland from cyber risks (NCS)" has been adopted: Cyber risks are to be minimized in cooperation with authorities, industry and the operators of critical infrastructures. The 16 measures for NCS implementation include building additional capabilities and capacities through systematic collaboration with relevant ICT service providers and system suppliers.
To implement this measure, the Federal Reporting and Analysis Centre for Information Assurance (MELANI) and the association "Swiss Cyber Experts (SCE)" founded a public-private partnership (PPP) in 2014. Its aim is to efficiently provide a diagnosis to the injured parties in the event of serious cyber attacks thanks to pooled expert knowledge. The PPP has recently become operational.
Now the business umbrella organization Economiesuisse has also decided to support the initiative. Kurt Lanz of Economiesuisse: "Cyber threats are among the greatest challenges of the present and the future across all industries.
For SCE President Alain Gut, knowledge transfer is at the heart of the collaboration: "Threats to ICT infrastructures today are becoming increasingly sophisticated and are changing very quickly. It is therefore all the more important to exchange up-to-date expert knowledge in order to jointly increase security".
