  Governments around the world are required to strengthen their national
cybersecurity capabilities to respond effectively to the growing, changing, and
sophisticated cyber threats and attacks, thus protecting society and the way of
life as a whole. Responsible government institutions need to revise, evaluate,
and bolster their national cybersecurity capabilities to fulfill the new
requirements, for example regarding new trends affecting cybersecurity, key
supporting laws and regulations, and implementations risk and challenges. This
report presents a comprehensive assessment instrument for cybersecurity at the
national level in order to help countries to ensure optimum response capability
and more effective use of critical resources of each state. More precisely, the
report - builds a common understanding of the critical cybersecurity
capabilities and competence to be assessed at the national level, - adds value
to national strategic planning and implementation which impact the development
and adaptation of national cybersecurity strategies, - provides an overview of
the assessment approaches at the national level, including capabilities,
frameworks, and controls, - introduces a comprehensive cybersecurity instrument
for countries to determine areas of improvement and develop enduring national
capabilities, - describes how to apply the proposed national cybersecurity
assessment framework in a real-world case, and - presents the results and
lessons learned of the application of the assessment framework at the national
level to assist governments in further building cybersecurity capabilities.
