ABSTRACT
The Czech Republic has a long history of industrial development and technological innovation. This chapter introduces two successes that highlight the Czech Republic’s role as a regional cyber power. These are the development of highly advanced systems for identifying and protecting critical information infrastructure and for utilizing the great capacity of the Czech Republic’s human resources in information technology (IT). The chapter examines two issues that have slowed the otherwise rapid cyber development in the country and which need to be urgently addressed in the next few years in order to allow the country to become the region’s cyber security leader. These are a low level of implementation of e-government, in which the Czech Republic has fallen behind the rest of developed Europe, as well as slow progress in building up cyber defense capabilities. E-government and cyber defense are examples of deficiencies that are closely linked to national cyber security.
