2015

Sillanpää, Antti; Roivainen, Harri; Lehto, Martti

Technical and automated solutions and information networks, which make planning, guidance and implementation possible fast and in a cost-efficient way, are widely used in Finnish information society. The flipside of this development is increased dependency on extensive and complicated technical systems and information networks. Failures in these systems or, for example, in their power supply may rapidly affect comprehensive security in society. Threats against security in society have become more multifaceted and, as a consequence, more complicated. Threats can no longer be divided clearly into military and non-military threats or internal and external threats; they are often interconnected with each other, difficult to predict and likely to occur at short notice. Internal security and external security are more and more intertwined and often it is not appropriate or even possible to separate them from each other. Cyber-related espionage, crimes and operations between states have been growing and the trend seems to be on the increase (Turvallinen Suomi: Tietoja Suomen kokonaisturvallisuudesta 2013).