As society becomes increasingly dependent on networked technologies and infrastructures, the importance of good cyber defence and crisis response mechanisms becomes increasingly important (Tiirma...Show moreAs society becomes increasingly dependent on networked technologies and infrastructures, the importance of good cyber defence and crisis response mechanisms becomes increasingly important (Tiirma-Klaar, 2016). Multiple researchers have formed indices to assess how mature a country is in its cybersecurity, such as the National Cyber Security Index, the National Cyber Power Index and the Cyber Readiness Index (Cassidy et al., 2020; EGovernance Academy, 2022; Hathaway & Spidalieri, 2017). In 2017, Hathaway and Spidalieri applied the Cyber Readiness Index 2.0 on the Netherlands and concluded that in terms of defence and crisis response mechanisms, the Netherlands is not cyber ready (Hathaway & Spidalieri, 2017). Now, five years later, this paper conducts a qualitative research with a case study design by reapplying the same framework used in the CRI 2.0, consisting of 12 indicators of cyber defence and crisis response maturity, to the Netherlands in order to answer the question how the Dutch cyber defence and crisis response capabilities altered since the analysis by Hathaway and Spidalieri in 2017. It concludes that although improvements have been made, the Netherlands is still not cyber ready.Show less
