11 PRIORITY 3 – ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES We stress the need for coordinated action throughout this Guide. Effective coordination requires strong local, national and global public and private organisational structures. For this reason, we present ideas on how to build organisational structures and strategies to help prevent, detect and respond to attacks against critical infrastructure. We align the GCA Organisational Structures Pillar with the relevant strategic goals. GCA PILLAR: ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES Corresponding GCA Goal Goal 2 Goal 4 Goal 6 Elaboration of global strategies for the creation of appropriate national and regional organisational structures and policies on cybercrime. Development of strategies for the creation of a global framework for watch, warning and incident response to ensure cross-border coordination between new and existing initiatives. Development of a global strategy to facilitate human and institutional capacity building to enhance knowledge and know-how across sectors and in all the above-mentioned areas. Figure 20 – Organisational Structures Pillar and related GCA goals 11.1 GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES Cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility because countermeasures only work well if all stakeholders we identified in section 5.3 perform their roles. As we have said repeatedly, national administrations have overall accountability for cybersecurity. We now explore what we consider the most relevant governmental organisational structures. 11.1.1 Head of Government Accountability Cybersecurity requires all tools of national power. Therefore, we recommend that Heads of Government or State assume overall accountability for cybersecurity. Top government leadership stresses the vitality of cybersecurity to the advancement of national interests. 60