The status overview is a central knowledge base for the Government’s future work. The Government will emphasise comprehensive and systematic work on preventive cyber security. A key measure will be to appoint a committee to consider cyber security regulation. The committee will assess the need for and possibly propose a national Cyber Security Act, among other things, with scope outside the Security Act. The committee will also consider organisational issues. In addition to this, the Government will establish and develop strategic forums to discuss issues related to national cyber security and international cooperation, forums which also support public-private cooperation. The Government is committed to strengthening national capability to detect and manage cyber attacks. Furthermore, the Government wants to facilitate good information sharing and management through a national framework for cyber incident management. The Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security has initiated work to improve the cooperation and flow of information related to cyber incident management in Norway. Furthermore, coordination between the Intelligence Service, the National Security Authority (NSM), the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) and the police has been strengthened. The Government will facilitate long-term development of cyber security competence through a national cyber security competence strategy. Cyber security applies to everyone. By ensuring that young people learn early on the importance of secure use and understand the need for cyber security, the coming generations carry cyber security competence with them into their future education and working life. Our society consists of a number of critical societal functions that must be maintained at all times in the interest of society and the fundamental needs of the population. These functions require an ICT infrastructure that works almost everywhere and all the time. The Government is committed to ensuring that we as a society have a secure and reliable ICT infrastructure. One of the main recommendations of the Lysne Committee was to reduce dependence on Telenor’s core infrastructure. The Government is implementing regulatory and financial measures to make the electronic communication networks more robust in line with the development in threats and the technical development, and have in Meld. St. 33 (2016–2017) National Transport Plan 2018–2029 prioritized funds to establish a pilot for an alternative core infrastructure. 2 Background, frameworks and the contents of the report Meld. St. 10 (2016–2017) Risk in a safe and secure society was presented to the Storting in December 2016. In the white paper, cyber security is highlighted as one of the Government’s key areas within public security. The white paper places special emphasis on comprehensive and systematic work on preventive cyber security measures and our capability to detect and manage cyber attacks. Furthermore, emphasis is placed on society's need for good cyber security competence at all levels and a secure and reliable ICT infrastructure. In Meld. St. 27 (2015–2016) Digital agenda for Norway, cyber security and privacy are one of the main priorities of the Government’s ICT policy. Recently, several analyses on digital vulnerabilities have been prepared. They contribute to public education and awareness, but also to provide the authorities and business leaders with a decisionmaking basis to draw up policies and measures to reduce vulnerabilities.