A/68/156/Add.1 Furthermore, a platform for cooperation and information exchange was initiated at the national level in October 2012: The Alliance for Cyber Security (Allianz für Cybersicherheit) facilitates close cooperation between partners in the economic, academic and administrative fields and, particularly, with enterprises of special public interest. The CIP Implementation Plan is currently being updated after four years of activity. It will be opened for more operators of critical infrastructures and will set up a number of new working groups within the sectors of the critical infrastructures. In addition, cooperation with the new Alliance for Cyber Security will be established. International interconnections in cyberspace mean that coordinated action at the international level is essential. Within the European Union and international organizations, Germany therefore strongly advocates strengthened cyber security while, at the same time, protecting the social and economic benefits in cyberspace. In its cyber security strategy, in view of the global interconnection of information technology, Germany advocates developing broad, non-contentious, politically binding norms of State behaviour in cyberspace. They should be acceptable to a large part of the international community and should include measures to build trust and increase security. Confidence- and security-building measures in cyberspace Cyberspace is a public good and a public space. As such, we have to consider cyberspace security in terms of the resilience of infrastructure and the integrity and failure safety of systems and its contained data. Being a public space, States have to promote security in cyberspace, particularly regarding security against crime and malicious activities, by protecting those who choose to use authenticity tools against identity theft and securing the integrity and confidentiality of networks and data. Cyberspace is global by nature. Ensuring cyber security, enforcing rights and protecting critical information infrastructures requires major efforts by the State at the national level and in cooperation with international partners. At the national level, Germany has a distinct culture of cooperation between a large number of computer emergency response teams throughout economic, academic and administrative bodies. In this context, CERT-Bund is a well-established focal contact point for these teams. At the European and international level, CERT-Bund is closely cooperating with a set of other governmental computer emergency response teams, with the Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) network being the most important global forum for computer emergency response teams to interconnect in cyberspace. Against this backdrop, Germany is ready to work on a set of behavioural norms addressing State-to-State behaviour in cyberspace, including, in particular, confidence-, transparency- and security-building measures to be signed by as many countries as possible. Germany therefore actively participated in the 2012/13 Group of Governmental Experts tasked “to continue to study existing and potential threats in the sphere of information security and possible cooperative measures to address them, including norms, rules or principles of responsible behaviour of States and confidence-building measures with regard to information space …” (General Assembly resolution 66/24). 13-47545 7/24