1) Building response capability: having efficient capabilities to prevent, detect, manage (respond to), address and correct any malicious cyber activity, threat, attack or emergency, as well as accidental information leakage. To achieve these goals, the very first step was to establish the GovCERT-Hungary. 2) Creating a secure environment: providing appropriate protection for its national data assets, to ensure the operational safety of the cyberspace functions of its vital systems and facilities, and to have a sufficiently fast, efficient, loss-minimising correction system in situations where a compromise occurs, which can also be used at times of a special legal order (i.e. emergency situations). 3) Applying international standards: ensuring that the quality of IT and communication products and services required for a secure operation of the Hungarian cyberspace reaches international standards, with special emphasis on compliance with international security certification standards. 4) Improving education: ensuring that the standard of cyber security education, training and research and development is consistent with international best practices, promoting the establishment of a world-class Hungarian knowledge base. The government declared a significant role for the National University of Public Service in this matter, operating as the main base of education, training and research in the field of information security. 5) Protecting the future generation: ensuring that the establishment of a secure cyberspace for children and future generations is consistent with international best practice. The strategy sets the priorities as the following: ‘To meet present and future challenges, the strategy stipulates the requirement that the Hungarian cyberspace shall provide a secure and reliable environment: - for individuals and communities, to ensure social development and integration through free and secure communication guaranteeing the protection of private information, - for individuals and communities, to ensure social development and integration through free and secure communication guaranteeing the protection of personal information, - for economic actors, to develop efficient and innovative business solutions, - for future generations, to ensure value-based education and the collection of experience resulting in healthy, undisturbed mental development, - for electronic public administration, to promote the innovative and future-oriented development of public service.’ 30 Hungary’s National Security Strategy was drafted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and adopted by the Government in 2012. The Strategy was the third of its kind since the 1989 regime change and the first to address cyber security at such high level. The document highlighted the fact that ‘the unhindered proliferation of the results of scientific and technological development and their potential malicious use by state or nonstate actors, and even terrorist groups, to interfere with the normal operation of IT and communications systems and core governmental networks constitute an additional threat’; therefore, the capabilities of Hungary to respond to threats of these kinds have to be kept up-to-date and at readiness. 30 1035/2012 (21 March) Government Decree on the Hungary's National Security Strategy. <http://www.ecfr.eu/page//Hongrie_-_2012_-_National_Security_Strategy.pdf>. 7