National strategic framework for cyberspace security Implementation of a national integrated system of information risk management which is able to: • Identify potential risks; • Elaborate risk management policies and procedures. • Establish an effective national structure for preventing and managing risk; The central Role of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) As envisaged in the Prime Minister’s “Decree Containing Strategic Guidelines for the National Cyber Protection and ICT Security” of the 24th January 2013, public and private operators providing “public networks of communications or electronic communication services to the public, operating national and European critical infrastructures depending on ITC systems” are among the main stakeholders of the national architecture to guarantee cyber protection and national IT security. According to the aforementioned Prime Minister’s Decree, such subjects are obliged to: • Communicate to the Cybersecurity Unit every significant security and integrity violation of their own computer systems; • Adopt all the best practices and measures necessary to pursue cyber security; • Share information with the agencies for intelligence and security and allow access to databases that are relevant to cyber security; • Collaborate to the management of a cyber crisis by restoring the functionality of the networks and systems they operate. The public-private partnerships therefore an essential component for ensuring the success of any cyber security strategy. In modern economic and institutional systems the majority of essential public services and national strategic infrastructures are managed by the private sector. The cooperation with these actors has been ensured through ad hoc agreements with the aim to substantiate even further the cooperation in this context. In light of further progress, to be pursued through an incremental process, the synergies with the private sector should be extended so as to include all entities that, independently of their size, are of strategic value for the scientific, technological, industrial and economic progress of the country. 26