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Objective Analysis. Effective Solutions.

Based on an assignment from the Cabinet Office and Department of Defence, the Swedish National Defence College's Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies (CATS) asked RAND Europe to undertake a rapid comparison of states' characterisation of cyber-security threats. This involved investigating three lines of enquiry related to the integration of cyber-security within broader national and transnational defence and security frameworks.

The project was limited both in size and scope and called primarily for desk research. This document is the final deliverable for this study, encompassing results and analysis from desk research, and insights gleaned from previous research on the issue.

The first part of the document summarises the findings and provides an overview of the scope and methodology of the research. The second part of the document describes the cyber-security strategies and approaches in ten case studies: Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Russian Federation, the UK and the USA. At CATS' request we also have profiled initiatives by NATO and the EU. Based on documentary analysis, stakeholder engagement and previous studies, we include a short chapter on potential policy concerns for Sweden going forward, supplementing the case study analysis. The report will be of interest to practitioners and policymakers in cyber-strategy and policy.

• Chapter One

  Research outline

• Chapter Two

  Defining terms

• Chapter Three

  Comparators

• Chapter Four

  Themes from the roundtable

• Chapter Five

  Conclusions

• Chapter Six

  Next steps

• Annex A

  Events of national interest

• Annex B

  Table of national comparators