CSR Advisory opinion on cyber resilience among Dutch small and medium-sized enterprises

This advisory opinion was prepared in response to the request of the Minister of Justice and Security dated 31 January 2023, in which she asked the Cyber Security Council (referred to below as the council) to advise on the cyber resilience gap between organisations. This gap refers to the large differences in cyber resilience between forerunners (organisations that have balanced their cyber resilience measures with the threat) and stragglers (organisations for which this is not the case). The council addresses a wide range of issues in this advisory opinion, including the minister's questions. The aim of the advisory opinion is to empower the government with concrete recommendations to work with industry associations, IT and telecom suppliers and SMEs to help reduce and, where possible, bridge the cyber resilience gap.