The Nature and the Evolving Trends of the Cyber Threat and of the Vulnerabilities of the National ICT Infrastructures availability and privacy) by introducing of a methodology for ensuring the secure design of ICT products and systems. Improvement of the support to ICT users, also through the introduction of suitable market incentive aimed at promoting the security of available products. Cooperation with the industrial sector for the adoption of security protocols aimed at protecting ICT networks and products, as well as innovative technologies. Planning of public services of assistance and support, in particular to small and medium enterprises. swift process of procurement, evaluation, verification and certification of ICT products, which has to keep the pace with the rapid innovations that characterizes the sector. Definition and identification of best practices and procedures to mitigate supply chain risks and creation of audit mechanisms to verify the reliability of ICT products and vendors. Development, within the Public Administration, of a flexible and Envisaging incentives to stimulate the national ICT industrial competitiveness: focusing the activities of R&D and of the national Centers of Excellence on sectors that are deemed strategic for the Armed Forces or have a potential operative impact, such as the development of resilient and secure ICT products and software. Since the cyberspace is at the same time the means and the object of strategic communication, ensuring consistency between strategic communication and the activities carried out in the cyber domain may strengthen the effectiveness of the country’s instruments of prevention and response to cyber attacks. An effective institutional communication of national dissuasion and deterrence capabilities in cyberspace may work as a disincentive to potential adversaries and criminals. Allocation of adequate human, financial, technological and logistic resources to the strategic sectors of the Public Administration that are the most directly involved in the achievement of the short and medium term strategic objectives envisaged in this National Cybersecurity Strategic Framework. 25