4. Objectives At the national level, Cyber Security strategy must be designed to implement, for the public and private sectors and for citizens, a strategic defense plan against Cyber Threats, ensuring its sustainability by institutionalizing it through a clear structure and objectives. A Cyber Security Strategy shall also incorporate decisive actions to protect the Lebanese economy and the privacy of Lebanese citizens. Overall, the main goal of this National Strategy is to outline a set of decisions, which must lead to operational actions that make Lebanon confident, capable, and resilient in a fast-moving digital world. The following main objectives must be accomplished:  Encourage the Government, organizations, businesses, and individuals to play their part in this collective effort to secure the national Cyber Space;  Improve the availability and usability of services, enhance transparency, encourage citizen participation in governance, and cut public and private sector Cyber Threats and the costs of Cyber Attacks;  Apply an appropriate and effective incident management notification and response mechanism;  Manage security incidents and reduce risk, thus being able accurately to estimate current and upcoming Cyber Threats;  Respond quickly and effectively to Cyber Threats, using the most appropriate capability, to major incidents in Cyber Space as they occur to maintain the security and resilience of networks, data, and systems.  Develop the legal, procedural, and technical means to defend Lebanon against constantly evolving Cyber Threats, to provide an effective response to incidents, and to ensure the protection and resilience of the country's networks, data, and systems;  Improve response capabilities to Cyber Attacks by adopting appropriate measures and increasing the country’s resistance to the most common Cyber Threats. The Government needs to build on its capabilities and those of the industry, actively supporting the development and implementation of active Cyber Defense measures to significantly improve ICT security levels on domestic networks;  Provide support and assistance to organizations in response to security incidents. In particular, the State must ensure that the Government, whether from a preventive perspective or in response to an incident, collaborates actively with the private sector. National incident management processes must take a June 2019 LEBANON NATIONAL CYBER SECURITY STRATEGY 35