A national cyber security authority is a government body responsible for overseeing, coordinating and implementing the national cyber security strategy.
It plays a crucial role in protecting a country's critical infrastructure, businesses and citizens from ever-growing cyber threats.
Each country has set up its own cyber security authority to protect its critical infrastructures and its citizens. Some of the best known are :
- Europe European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA)
- France: French National Agency for Information Systems Security (ANSSI)
- Germany Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI)
- Spain Centro Criptológico Nacional (CCN)
- Belgium Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB)
- Netherlands Netherlands National Communications Security Agency (NLNCSA)
- United States National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
- China National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT/CC)
- United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
