Routledge Companion to Global Cyber-Security Strategy

11DUTCH CYBER SECURITY STRATEGY

Joost Bunk and Max Smeets

Introduction

The Netherlands is one of the most connected countries in the world. This is largely due to three international hubs: the Port of Rotterdam, Schiphol Airport, and the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX). Spanning across all five continents, interconnecting more than 800 communication networks by offering professional peering services to Internet Service Providers (ISPs),¹ AMS-IX is one of the largest the internet exchanges in the world. The Netherlands is also a highly digitalized country. It has a large information communications technology sector, with innovative markets for services such as e-health and e-commerce. It has one of the strongest broadband connections ...