From words to action: a steep road! --- Moving from discussions and awareness raising to action is the most difficult part ! We need huge investments in infrastructure, security, standards etc. It shouldn't be a big issue when we look at the growing economic importance of the digital economy and the essential role of digitalisation for critical infrastructure. It was quite concerning to hear Stefanie Frey underlining that even governments of countries that are at the forefront of IT are not doing enough to protect their "crown jewels". Politics is clearly not adapting quickly enough the changes in the real virtual world! Let's hope we won't learn our lesson the hard way...

Source author: Florence Tinguely Mattli florence.tinguely-mattli@eda.admin.ch