The needs of the emergency and preparedness services, including data, may require new solutions. Both the technological development and the development of the threat situation point to the fact that the emergency and preparedness services will need mobile broadband solutions with a high degree of security and robustness. This will require significant involvement and resources from the Government to realise a future solution of secure and robust mobile broadband services for the emergency services. The State must take responsibility for facilitating satisfactory frameworks and services for this purpose, regardless of whether the needs are to be realised through the commercial electronic communication networks, through a separate network for emergency and preparedness services or through a combination of these solutions. Through the National Electronic Communication Plan, the Government has expressed an objective that the public electronic communication networks should as far as possible be able to carry future services for the emergency and preparedness services. The Government has also decided that frequency resources in the 700 MHz band will be used for mobile services when they are available in the future. Nkom is in dialogue with DSB and the Norwegian Defence Material Agency on relevant problems and needs, and different options are considered against socio-economic cost/benefit. cyber security considerations such as integrity, confidentiality and availability and special functionality for this user group are important assessment topics. 9.4 Cyber security in management and control systems Many of the important societal functions require round-the-clock operation of automatic management and control systems. The technology used is a mixture of the usual ICT equipment and specialised computers (automation equipment). Part III describes such social functions in the chapters on energy supply, oil and gas, water supply and transport. This equipment has many of the same vulnerabilities as the usual ICT equipment, but it is more vulnerable because of the need for roundthe-clock operation and that it is used in businesses that do not necessarily have a robust ICT department. The management systems themselves rarely need to be connected to the individual company’s data network, but such connection is usually established because there is a desire to be able to carry out maintenance or troubleshooting, or to use operating data for reporting and maintenance management. This link means that the vulnerabilities in the management systems are exposed. Enterprises must be aware of how management and control systems are secured and followed-up, and they should cooperate to increase knowledge within the field.