HCSS report: Non-profit cybersecurity organisations underfunded despite critical role (hcss.nl)

• Non-profit cybersecurity organisations are underfunded despite their critical role in global resilience.
• Replacing them with commercial alternatives would cost hundreds of millions; avoided losses in billions.
• Report recommends multi-year government funding and integration into national strategies.

"A new report from the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) finds that non-profit cybersecurity organisations are essential for global cyber resilience but remain structurally underfunded. The study, authored by Hans Horan, Ron Stoop and Jan Feldhusen, estimates that replacing their services with commercial alternatives would cost hundreds of millions of dollars, while they prevent billions in losses. The authors call for governments to commit multi-year funding and formally integrate these actors into national cybersecurity strategies."