3. Cyber Incidence Response - The Government has established the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT-SL) as the, central body for cyber security at the national level. This body will manage national cyber incidents, provide an authoritative voice and center of expertise on cyber security, and deliver tailored support and advice to departments, regulators and businesses. This body will coordinate efforts to detect, analyze, respond to and recover from cyber threats, and will also provide its cyber security expertise to support the Government’s efforts to support a promising cyber secured environment, and stimulate the development of cyber security skills. The CIRT-SL provides:  a unified source of advice for the Government’s cyber security threat intelligence and information assurance;  the strong public face of the Government’s action against cyber threats – working hand in hand with industry, academia and international partners to keep the state protected against cyber-attack.  A frontline organization that draws on necessary secret intelligence and technical expertise. 4.0 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN Our goals for the country’s cyber security over the next five years are rightly ambitious. To achieve them will require us to act with consequence and determination across the digital landscape. Activities to deliver the Government’s vision will advance the three primary objectives of the strategy: to DEFEND our cyberspace, to DETER our adversaries and to DEVELOP our capabilities. 4.1 DEFEND 4.1.1 ACTIVE CYBER DEFENCE Active Cyber Defense (ACD) is the principle of implementing security measures to strengthen a network or system to make it more robust against attack. In a commercial context, Active Cyber Defense normally refers to cyber security analysts developing an understanding of the threats to their networks, and then devising and implementing measures to proactively combat, or defend, against those threats. The ‘network’ we are attempting to defend is the entire national