1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:06,480 I am lieutenant general Onno Eichelsheim, deputy commander of the Armed Forces. 2 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:10,200 I'm a member of the Dutch Cyber Security Council CSR. 3 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:13,560 We have advised on the importance of new technologies... 4 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:19,240 to make The Netherlands cyber resilient, and for that purpose... 5 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:22,040 you need to use new technologies... 6 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:26,280 or older technologies with new applications. 7 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:33,040 We absolutely need those new technologies to protect the country... 8 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:35,520 and make it cyber resilient. 9 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,280 However, at the moment the efforts are scattered... 10 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:44,360 and these are precarious times for cyber security in the Netherlands... 11 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:48,520 in which nations, organised crime but also 'regular criminals'... 12 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:54,600 keep on deploying new technologies for their purposes. 13 00:00:54,720 --> 00:01:00,360 So having control and tech knowledge are crucial. 14 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:05,160 Without that, in the end we will not be able to protect our country. 15 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:10,480 How important is Dutch cyber resilience for the council and for me? 16 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,760 Cyber resilience should always closely follow digital developments... 17 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:18,480 and the use of digital instruments in our society. 18 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:25,360 During this Covid crisis companies and citizens are relying on digital tools... 19 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:30,920 but so far cyber resilience and privacy are not secured adequately. 20 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:35,600 However, we do want to keep on living in an open and prosperous society... 21 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:37,640 which we also want to protect. 22 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:42,920 Therefore, the government and companies should collaborate... 23 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:49,160 also with knowledge institutes. The government should encourage this. 24 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:55,840 For all of this you need long term planning and long term funding. 25 00:01:55,960 --> 00:02:02,600 The Netherlands can't go it alone. We need to work with European partners. 26 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:07,120 From my own experience I'm thinking of the European Defence Fund... 27 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,840 in which European partners are developing knowledge. 28 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,680 Something similar should happen in the area of cyber resilience. 29 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:20,240 Furthermore, the council is worried about the knowledge levels... 30 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:25,840 in the Netherlands, because we often use foreign tech companies. 31 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:30,640 At the end of the year the council will advise on that as well. 32 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:37,080 A good example of cyber resilience can be found in the Defence organisation. 33 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:41,600 When you look at Defence's industry strategy ... 34 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:45,480 we are always positioning ourselves as a launching customer... 35 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,800 in this case when it comes to cyber tech. 36 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:51,840 I already mentioned the European Defence Fund... 37 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:56,360 in which European partners are developing technology. 38 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:01,760 In our organisation this means we can act as launching customer. 39 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:06,040 We're not doing that alone, but are collaborating with the private sector... 40 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:09,360 knowledge institutes and the government itself... 41 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:16,760 like our collaboration between MARIN, TNO, NLR, and the Ministry of Defence. 42 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:23,720 All of these were brought together in an artificial intelligence community. 43 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:29,520 This working group focuses on the use of artificial intelligence... 44 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:35,680 partly to use artificial intelligence for analysing and using data... 45 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:41,960 but we are also thinking about using artificial intelligence for cyber resilience. 46 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:46,320 How does the council want to use these technologies... 47 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:49,240 to increase Dutch cyber resilience? 48 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:53,080 First of all, we obviously should understand those technologies. 49 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,080 We have advised the minister of Justice and Security... 50 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:59,800 and the state secretary of Economic Affairs... 51 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:04,480 to create an annual overview of the latest developments in tech. 52 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,920 That way we can monitor what is actually happening. 53 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:13,160 Secondly, we should create specific policies and adapt our industrial policies. 54 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,360 The government could act as a launching customer. 55 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:22,360 The third and most important point is there should be a structural approach... 56 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:26,760 because our opponents, the 'bad guys' are continuously doing this.