Dutch National Cyber Security Centre

GOVCERT.NL (Government Computer Emergency Response Team of the Netherlands) merged with the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) on 1 January 2012. This new organisation is a public-private partnership between ministries, investigation and intelligence services, companies within the critical infrastructure and the academic world.

The NCSC will be operational as of 1 January 2012. The ambition of the NCSC is to increase cyber resilience of Dutch society. The NCSC will aim to achieve this by gaining insight into, among other things, cyber trends, threats, incidents, and vulnerabilities, and furthermore by providing a perspective for action or support when a threat, incident or crisis occurs. The NCSC will structure its ambition along the following three pillars:

* Developing and providing expertise and advice
* Providing assistance and response in the event of threats or incidents
* Strengthening crisis management

The official opening of the NCSC will be on 12 January 2012. Also the website will be launched at that time: www.ncsc.nl