Improving national cybersecurity and reducing a country’s vulnerability is a very challenging mission. Cyberspace is almost entirely a private environment, making it difficult for government services to protect, detect and respond to threats and incidents.

As in most countries, the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) is working to build resilience through national and international collaboration, public-private partnerships, information sharing, capacity building and training, awareness raising, research, AI driven detection and response, Quantum ready crypto, national cybersecurity exercises, etc. All these actions are necessary and useful, but not enough. Despite all these measures, cybercrime and online fraud are on the rise. These measures seem to be too high level and often do not lead to concrete actions and results without being translated into smaller, more concrete, targeted projects and services. 

The mission of the CCB is to make Belgium one of the least vulnerable countries in terms of cybersecurity.  To achieve this, we constantly keep our finger on the pulse of current threats and constantly develop new projects that really matter to citizens, businesses and critical infrastructures.