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Moerland, Marijne (2022)

Den Svenska Cybersäkerhetsstrategin: How Sweden remains steadfast in an increasingly developing world

Bachelor thesis | Security Studies (BSc)

This thesis aims to test the Swedish cybersecurity strategy on the ‘Guide to Developing a National Cybersecurity Strategy’ provided by the ITU et al. (2018), which consists of seven focus areas with associated good practices. The research design of this study is therefore a form of qualitative descriptive data analysis with Sweden’s national cybersecurity strategy as a case study. The two primary policy documents which are analysed are ‘A National Cyber Security Strategy’, proposed by the Ministry of Justice (2017), and the ‘Swedish Cyber Security National Action Plan for the years 2019-2022’ established by the MSB et al. (2020). The results show that the Swedish national cybersecurity strategy incorporates the majority of the focus areas and associated good practices of what the ITU considers necessary to establish a sufficient national cybersecurity strategy.

cybersecurity governance

cybersecurity strategy

Sweden

International Telecommunication Union

ITU

Author

Moerland, Marijne

Faculty

Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

Supervisors

Mirzaei, P.

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en