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WAYS – PRIORITIES
Our national cybersecurity strategy model chose the five pillars of the GCA as the forms
through which States may pursue national cybersecurity strategies. Therefore, the ways
identify the strategic activities to help countries govern the pillars. Governance defines
how nations may use the resources in the five pillars to attain the outcomes that the ends
envisage. In the multi-stakeholder domain of cybersecurity, the ways define how nations
may allocate resources, coordinate and control the activities of all relevant stakeholders.
Allocating roles and responsibilities clearly prevents overlapping and often contradictory
mandates that paralyse many national cybersecurity programmes. Clear governance
structures further confer legitimacy on stakeholders including government. Importantly,
the ways define expectations for activities and thus are a basis for verifying performance.
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PRIORITY 1 – LEGAL
MEASURES
Gaps in national and regional legislation make cybercrime a low risk and lucrative
undertaking. In keeping with the first GCA pillar, this priority aims to help devise
strategies to govern the development of cybercrime legislation that is globally applicable
and interoperable with existing national and regional legislative measures. We align this
priority with GCA strategic goals relevant to the Legal Measures pillar as follows:
GCA PILLAR: LEGAL MEASURES
Corresponding
GCA Goals
Goal 1
Elaboration of strategies for the development of a model
cybercrime legislation that is globally applicable and
interoperable with existing national and regional
legislative measures.
Goal 7
Proposals on a framework for a global multi-stakeholder
strategy for international cooperation, dialogue and
coordination in all the above-mentioned areas.
Figure 15 – Legal Measures Pillar and related GCA goal
We now propose the forms through which States may consider pursuing the national
cybersecurity strategies under this pillar.
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LEGAL MEASURES STRATEGY
Nations should strengthen their capacity to regulate cyberspace. Nations may adopt the
strategy formulation process that we presented in Figure 5. In particular, stage 3 of the
flowchart deals with sector or GCA-pillar specific strategies. The flowchart shows how
the executive, law enforcement, the judiciary, the private sector, and other stakeholders
could support of the legal strategy. Due to transnational nature of cyber threats, our
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