📋 Tender Overview
Ministers Hanke Bruins Slot BZK and Kajsa Ollongren Defense sent the proposal for the temporary cyber operations act to the House of Representatives. With this temporary law the General Intelligence and Security Service AIVD and Military Intelligence and Security Service MIVD can use powers faster and more effectively against the increased cyber threat of countries that commit cyber attacks against the Netherlands.The Netherlands and its allies are increasingly faced with digital attacks from countries with an offensive cyber strategy such as Russia and China. This concerns for example attempts to steal sensitive information or sabotage vital infrastructure. Disruption or failure of this can lead to serious social disruption and economic damage. The cyber threat is increasing and these actors can act faster and more advanced and are increasingly able to hide. The aim is to give the services a better view of this increasing cyber threat by ensuring that existing powers can be used more quickly and effectively against this threat.For example dynamic monitoring makes it possible to monitor an ongoing investigation where an attacker moves to a new server or device without having to stop the operation to resubmit a consent request. Because attackers switch servers or devices constantly in the cyber domain which means that it is very difficult to track attackers properly under current regulations.
