What is Switzerland's most important data - and how do we deal with it?
Podium of the Swiss Data Alliance in cooperation with the Committee for Cybersecurity of digitalswitzerland.
With Manuel Suter(Federal Office for Cyber Security), Tom Kleiber(Switch) and Marc Holitscher(Microsoft)
16:30 General meeting of the Swiss Data Alliance (internal)
17:00 Start of panel (Moderation: André Golliez)
17:30 Discussion and questions from the audience
18:15 Aperitif
Manuel Suter
Head of Management Staff, BACS
Tom Kleiber
Managing Director, Switch
Marc Holitscher
National Technology Officer, Microsoft Switzerland
COVID-19 has dramatically demonstrated how data suddenly becomes existentially important for Switzerland in crisis situations. It is advisable to define the most important data for Switzerland's well-being with a view to various crisis scenarios (energy supply, environmental disasters, wars) and to ensure their availability on the part of the authorities, operators of critical infrastructure and other data providers in the event of an incident.
In particular, this also includes special digital protection, security management and the storage structure for this data. This is also called for in a corresponding motion by the Security Policy Committee of the Council of States, which was unanimously adopted. The new Federal Office for Cyber Security (BACS), which has been part of the Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS) since January 2024, is responsible for implementing the motion.