ABSTRACT
As a small, open, and highly digitalized country, cyber security is an issue of growing policy importance in Norway. This chapter offers 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 of Norwegian security policies since the Second World War. It examines the history, main documents, and publications delineating the Norwegian position, both nationally and internationally. The Norwegian approach to cyber security is firmly placed within a western understanding of multi-stakeholder cooperation between public and private actors. The traditional Norwegian approach to issues of security has been outward-facing, frequently engaging international institutions and stressing the importance of norms regulating state behavior. New initiatives to improve national coordination have been put into place, with long-awaited organizations like the national Cyber Security Centre and the NC3.
