Norica Nicolai (ALDE). - Mr President, the truth about cybersecurity is that we are always one step behind technology and its users. It is time now to adapt and we must do so quickly.

The most important thing is to be balanced. We need secure cyberspace, with rules and a degree of control, but we need also to protect openness and the free flow of information and communication.

Some Member States understand cybersecurity only as the prosecution of hackers, but it is much more than that. It is the regulation of an ever-changing environment. We need to identify its vulnerability – on the one hand financial and in terms of infrastructure systems and, on the other, in terms of vulnerable users, such as children, who need to be protected. But we also need to draw the line there.

We also need to change our mindset and to have the issue of cybersecurity in every single document we publish or work with. We need the Member States to adopt national cyber-defence strategies. There is a lot of pressure involved in this but we must continue.