3. GENERAL GOALS OF THE STRATEGY 1. Systematic approach in the application and enhancement of the national legal framework to take into account the new, cyber dimension of the society, keeping in mind the harmonisation with international obligations and global cyber security trends; 2. Pursuing activities and measures to increase the security, resilience and reliability of cyberspace, which need to be applied in order to ensure the availability, integrity and confidentiality of the respective groups of information used in cyberspace, both by the providers of various electronic and infrastructure services and by the users, namely all legal entities and individuals whose information systems are connected to cyberspace; 3. Establishing a more efficient mechanism of information sharing necessary for ensuring a higher level of general security in cyberspace, whereby each stakeholder is required, especially concerning certain groups of information, to ensure the implementation of adequate and harmonised standards of data protection; 4. Raising security awareness of all cyberspace users with an approach that distinguishes between the particularities of the public and economic sectors, legal entities and individuals, and which includes the introduction of the necessary educational elements into regular and extracurricular school activities, along with organising and implementing various activities aimed at making the broader public aware of certain current issues in this domain; 5. Stimulating the development of harmonised education programmes in schools and higher education institutions, through targeted and specialist courses, by connecting the academic, public and economic sectors; 6. Stimulating the development of e-services through building user confidence in eservices by defining the appropriate minimum security requirements; 7. Stimulating research and development in order to activate the potential and encourage harmonised efforts of the academic, economic and public sectors; 8. Systematic approach to international cooperation which makes possible an efficient transfer of knowledge and coordinated information sharing amongst the different competent national authorities, institutions and sectors of the society, with a view to recognising and creating capabilities for successful participation in business activities in a global environment. 7 of 31