The efficacy of public authorities, the economy and our social life has become unthinkable without functional and secure digital infrastructures. This has also created a new vulnerability in our systems, which makes it necessary to rethink our risk management approaches and implement new security concepts. We must take new approaches to shape our digital future in a positive way, in order to make our systems more resilient to digital threats. Four approaches form an important basis for this:

1. Security by design and security verification tools. The design and development process of digital systems must be subject to ongoing risk management from the start. Digital systems must be built in such a way that they are ...