'Switzerland's Security' 2018: The Federal Intelligence Service
Bern, 30.4.2018 - On 1 September 2017, the new Law on the Intelligence Service came into force, providing the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) with new tools to identify and prevent internal and external threats to Switzerland. For the first time, the FIS's annual security situation report – a decisive tool intended to support the orientation of security policy – defines the intelligence-gathering measures that were subject to authorisation and implemented in 2017, in a strategic environment marked by a heightened terrorist threat, and constantly increasing cyber risks and espionage activities.