The new management framework and the national coordination centre offer many opportunities to strengthen the cyber ecosystem in our country, to realise new growth in digitisation and its security, and to increase Belgium's digital competitiveness. It is therefore of great importance to set up an organisation that is as efficient as possible, delivering optimal coordination between all existing and future cyber (security) initiatives and their stakeholders.

National coordination centre

As a national coordination centre, the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) will have three main tasks:

• Coordinating investments from the EU
• Supporting the strategic tasks of the European Competence Centre
• Acting as a national focal point for the European management framework

In addition, the national coordination centre makes it possible to coordinate the competences in the field of cyber security – which in Belgium are shared between the regions, communities and the federal government – and to determine a strategic approach.

Central consultation platform

To coordinate Belgium’s position, as well as to ensure the functioning of the Belgian national coordination centre and the general Belgian cybersecurity investment policy, a central, national consultation platform at working group level has been set up for all relevant administrations of federal and federated entities and of the security services. This consultation platform is called the Strategic Board (SB). The Belgian positions determined by the Strategic Board will be communicated by two experts from the CCB on the Governing Board of the European Competence Centre. 

Advice from the (cybersecurity) field

Of course, the national coordination centre and the Strategic Board must be furnished with information from the Belgian knowledge community about the needs, trends and developments around cybersecurity. That is why a Belgian advisory group – the Belgian Strategic Advisory Group (BSAG) - will also be set up with a broad representation from the knowledge community. BSAG will inform its support base and stakeholders as well as possible about the initiatives of the management framework and the European investment opportunities.