National strategic framework for cyberspace security MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for representing the Italian national position within uppermost multilateral and international political forums. • Ensures a coherent promotion and safeguard of Italian national interests in cybersecurity issues in all international forums and at all levels; • Cooperates for the swift introduction at the domestic level of international obligations undertaken by Italy and of the guidelines emerging in the subject matter in all international forums (i.e. soft law, CSBM); • Coordinates Italian participation and efforts in the various multilateral forums of discussion on cybersecurity issues, also encompassing the contribution of the private sector and of the academia; • Coordinates and ensure the services and the activities - also with respect to the education and awareness raising of its employees - for enhancing the protection, the resiliency and the efficiency of ICT systems of the Ministry and the diplomatic and consular ICT network; • Negotiates, involving other national relevant authorities, all international agreements and arrangements on the subject matter, verifying their coherence and their suitability with respect to the wider national strategic guidelines for the projection of national interest in its various international formulations (security policies, human rights and fundamental liberties’ protection, countering of transnational threats, safeguard and development of the financial, economic and commercial exchanges, etc.); • Participates in the security communities of the Public Connectivity System (CERT-SPC, now CERT-PA) through the Ministry of External Affairs’ CERT (the so called “Local Security Unit”), already officially accredited to the CERT-SPC. 34