A/69/112
The National Security Council Office has prepared and sent other thematic
working group members a number of related proposals for their examination,
harmonization and approval. Such proposals are structured by means of the following
working documents: (1) Cyberdefence programme objectives; and (2) — South-East
European National Security Authorities cyberdefence questionnaire.
The Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Serbia is participating in the
implementation of General Assembly resolution 68/243. Departments within the
Ministry of Defence are active in the working group tasked to draft the law on
information security.
Also, the Ministry of Defence is in the process of forming different departments
that will operate in the area of information security and cyberdefence.
Switzerland
[Original: English]
[29 May 2014]
General appreciation of the issues of information security
Information
indispensable
and
driver
communication
of
social,
technologies
economic
and
political
(ICTs)
have
activities.
become
Switzerland
an
is
committed to seize the opportunities that are generated by the use of ICTs.
Switzerland takes account of the new developments and challenges in relation to ICTs
and actively engages in shaping the information society by means of the Strategy of
the Federal Council for an Information Society in Switzerland.
However, the use of ICTs has exposed information and communication
infrastructure to criminal, intelligence, politico-military or terrorist abuse or functional
impairment. Disturbances, manipulation and specific attacks carried out via electronic
networks are the risks that an information society entails. Against this background,
States have become increasingly engaged in a series of regional and international
policy discussions and debates over cybersecurity. This engagement is generated from
a growing sense of insecurity regarding vulnerabilities in computer systems and
related technologies and how they can be exploited for malicious purposes.
Even though vulnerabilities and threats in
since the 1980s, it was not until the past seven
stemming from the use of ICTs were put on the
the Swiss Federal Government set up an expert
the risks and increase the national capacity
vulnerabilities.
this environment have been recorded
years that threats and vulnerabilities
national security agenda. As a result,
group in 2010 in order to scrutinize
to respond to these threats and
Switzerland’s functioning as a holistic system depends on a growing number of
mutually networked information and communication facilities (computers and
networks). This infrastructure is vulnerable. Country-wide or long-lasting disruptions
and
attacks
could
have
severe
adverse
effects
for Switzerland’s
technical,
economic
and administrative performance. Such attacks can be launched by a variety of
perpetrators and have various motives: individual perpetrators, political activists,
criminal
organizations
intent on fraud or blackmail,
and terrorists or State spies who
want to disrupt and destabilize the State and society. ICTs are particularly attractive as
targets not only because they offer many possibilities for abuse, manipulation and
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