Skr. 2016/17:213 3 Follow-up of the strategy The Government’s aim with this strategy is to create an explicit platform for Sweden’s long-term cyber security efforts. The strategy sets out the overarching areas that the Government wishes to prioritise and the objectives for each area. The Government also indicates an overarching direction for how each of these objectives is to be achieved. The strategy will be followed, as needed, by specific commissions and other steering measures to relevant authorities in order for the objectives to be achieved. The security challenges will not be able to be resolved once and for all. The development of technology and threats means that the area of cyber security is changing and evolving at a rapid pace. This is inter alia reflected in amendments to rules and requirements at the EU and international levels. The strategy must have a flexibility to adapt to rapid external changes and therefore has no fixed duration, but will need to be updated as and when necessary. The Government’s intention is to implement a first update of this kind in 2018 in order to adapt the strategy to the new provisions and other consequences of the implementation of the NIS Directive in Swedish law. 28