In addition, Home Guard volunteers continue to make a significant contribution to maintaining the overall preparedness of society, including through support to the Armed Forces, the Police, Emergency Preparedness Service and national taxation authorities. National Emergency Management The risk assessment regarding national emergency preparedness has changed compared to a few years ago. Denmark is now more challenged by, inter alia, climate-related events. As a response to these changes, there is a need to strengthen national emergency preparedness. It is in the interest of society that Denmark has a robust emergency preparedness able to prevent and respond to the consequences of disasters both at home and abroad. To utilise the full potential of overall resources and capabilities, the national rescue preparedness now becomes part of the Defence Agreement. Increased cooperation between the Armed Forces, the Home Guard and the Emergency Management Agency contributes to ensuring robustness in overall preparedness for the benefit of society as a whole. The operational robustness of the Danish Emergency Management Agency will be strengthened by approximately 125 additional conscripts and NCOs. In addition, a further DKK 25 million will be added for enhanced crisis management capacity and procurement of equipment, e.g. for pollution control or the prevention of natural disasters. This equipment will also be made available for use in Greenland and the Faroe Islands, should the governments there request assistance. The possibilities for increasing recruitment to the national and municipal preparedness level with conscripts that have ended their service in national rescue preparedness will be explored. A study will be launched to examine the robustness and dimensioning of municipal rescue services. The work is expected to be completed in 2019. The study will include an analysis of whether conscripts from the national Emergency Management Agency can support relevant municipal rescue services during their service time. Terms of reference for this work will be submitted to the political Parties for approval. A strong cyber defence Denmark is one of the world's most digitised societies. Public authorities and private companies are closely connected digitally, both between each other and with the rest of the world. This trend will continue with increased power over the coming many years. But as society becomes more dependent on a growing number of digital solutions, we are also becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks. Global digitalisation means that a cyber attack that originates on the other side of Earth quickly can spread to Denmark, and such attacks can within just a few hours create serious consequences for both authorities and private companies. In Denmark, both private companies and authorities find themselves in a constant race with foreign states, hackers and individuals who keep developing new ways of using cyber attacks to reach political or economic goals. Some states show a more offensive behaviour demonstrating a will to carry out attacks with the purpose of leaking sensitive information, influence political processes or carry out destructive cyber attacks. Cyber espionage is a security and socio-economic threat to Denmark and Danish interests, with some states persistently trying to steal information from Danish authorities and private companies. The threats from cyber espionage are not only aimed at the public sector in Denmark, where information of strategic, political and economic importance is kept, but also against Danish companies where the threat often is specifically aimed at research-based companies including in high tech, energy and pharmaceutical industries.