2 Economic and Social Prosperity has also become one of the key guidelines referred to by the Strategy. 3. Terms used in the Strategy shall have the same meanings as those defined in the Law on Cyber Security, the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on the Organisation of the National Defence System and Military Service, the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Higher Education and Research and the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on the Right to Obtain Information from state and Municipal Institutions and Agencies. CHAPTER TWO TARGETS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STRATEGY, EVALUATION CRITERIA AND THEIR VALUES 4. The main purpose of the strategy is to provide the Lithuanian society with the opportunity to exploit the potential of information and communications technology (ICT) by identifying cyber incidents in an effective and timely manner, preventing their occurrence and spread, and managing consequences resulting from cyber incidents. SECTION ONE STATE’S CYBER SECURITY AND CYBER DEFENCE CAPABILITIES 5. The first target of the Strategy is to strengthen cyber security of the country and the development of cyber defence capabilities. 6. Like other countries of the world in which the potentials of the ICT are exploited and which have a perfectly well developed broadband infrastructure, Lithuania has become attractive not only to individual persons, to their groupings and organised groups but also to the countries specified in the reports of annual national security threat assessments of the State Security Department of the Republic of Lithuania and the Second Investigation Department under the Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Lithuania (hereinafter referred to as the “SSD” and “SID”, accordingly) which pose threat to Lithuania’s national security and conduct adverse activities in the global and Lithuanian cyberspace. Data collected by the National Cyber Security Centre under the Ministry of National Defence (NCSC), SSD and SID has revealed that Lithuania continuously encounters various types of cyber incidents aimed at infringement on the national information resources and critical information infrastructure; according to forecasts, the number and extent of cyber incidents are not likely to reduce in the future1. 7. According to the data of the Report on the State of National Cyber Security 2017, in 2017, the National Electronic Communication Networks and Information Security Incidents 1 The State Security Department of the Republic of Lithuania and the Second Investigation Department under the Ministry of National Defence (2018). National Security Threat Assessment; National Cyber Security Centre under the Ministry of National Defence (2018). Report on the State of National Cyber Security 2017.