Publications of the Prime Minister’s Office 2024:13 4 Current state Finland is a highly digitalised society. A continually growing proportion of daily human activity and use of public services is happening in a digital setting. Public administration and services in Finland accordingly often secure first place in international digitalisation rankings. Security of the digital operating environment has been continually strengthened in Finland. International assessments and national self-evaluations suggest that Finland has achieved a relatively good standard of cybersecurity. Finnish technical expertise, understanding of cybersecurity, and collaboration between the public and private sectors (which also works well by international standards) in the field of cybersecurity may be considered an asset internationally and a potential export product. 4.1 Cybersecurity and the digitalisation of society Finland’s Digital Compass is a national strategic roadmap for developing digitalisation in Finland that extends to 2030. It seeks a consistent and determined reform of public administration that will reduce the workload of businesses and individuals in using public services. The Digital Compass describes the key objectives and outcomes of the cyber and digital security development that is required in order to achieve this. While some major security breaches affecting the daily lives of ordinary people have also occurred in Finland, we have nevertheless been spared from cyberattacks with long-term debilitating impacts on the functioning of society. Hostile statesponsored operations, cybercrime, denial-of-service attacks, data leaks and various malware and other incidents have nevertheless also become more common in Finland. New data scamming approaches enabled by artificial intelligence are already threatening both cyberspace and the information environment. There is a threat of new serious impacts that will be even more far reaching. 17