Routledge Companion to Global Cyber-Security Strategy

12 NORWEGIAN CYBER SECURITY

A small-state approach to building international cyber cooperation

Lars Gjesvik

Introduction

As a small, open, and highly digitalized country, cyber security is an issue of growing policy importance in Norway. Yet, like highly technologically advanced states, Norway has faced difficulties in squaring national cyber security with private business interests and the multitude of actors. Recent years have seen efforts aimed at uniting disparate institutions and organizations into a coherent framework that works. This chapter will offer a brief summary of the relative criticality of cyber security for Norway as a state, examining the level of digitalization comparative to other states, before looking at the main tenets ...