The Cyber Security Strategy for Germany 2021 describes the fundamental, long-term orientation of the Federal Government’s cyber security policy. The strategy comprises four overarching guidelines:
- Establish cyber security as a joint task of the state, business, society and science,
- Strengthen the digital sovereignty of the state, business, science and society,
- Ensure the secure development of digitalisation and
- Make targets measurable and transparent.
These guidelines describe aspects that apply to all four of the following fields of action which comprise the cyber security strategy.