1.2 THE SCOPE OF THE STRATEGY This strategy is intended to shape the Government’s policy on cyber security, while also offering a rational and compelling vision to share with the public and private sector, civil society, academia and the wider population. The strategy blankets the whole of the state. The strategy sets out proposed or recommended actions aimed at all sectors of the economy and society, from ministries, departments and agencies, to leaders across industry and the individual citizen. The strategy aims to increase cyber security at all levels for our collective benefit - good internet governance. In this strategy, ‘cyber security’ refers to a set of activities and measures, both technical and non-technical, intended to protect the bioelectric environment from all possible threats. Consistent with our assessment of the challenge we face, this document sets out:  assessment of the strategic context, including present and evolving threats;  a preview of vulnerabilities and how these can be developed over the next five years;  objectives to achieve our goal, including guiding principles, roles and responsibilities;  Intentions to put our policy into practice. 1.3 MISSION STATEMENT: This 2017 National Cyber Security Strategy plan, underpinned by the Government’s commitment to boaster our state security, has the potential to deliver substantial improvements to Sierra Leone’s cyber security. It hopes to achieve important outcomes by looking to the market to drive secure cyber ethics. But this approach will not achieve all the scale and pace of change required to stay ahead of the fast-moving threats; we need to go further as time passes by as technology is an evolving subject matter. The 2017 National Cyber Security Strategy Plan, driven by government’s commitment to enhance state security shall deliver substantial improvements to Sierra Leone’s cyber security; regardless of the scale and pace of the change required to stay ahead of the fast-moving threats, this strategy hopes to achieve positive outcomes by looking to the market to drive best practice cyber ethics.