8.4.2026 | The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service and the National Cyber Security Centre Finland at Traficom warn people in Finland about Russia’s practice of exploiting poorly secured home routers and other network devices for cyber espionage.

10.3.2026 | Russia strives to increase its intelligence capability in Finland when the war in Ukraine eventually comes to an end. Post-war Russia is expected to be willing to restore its relations with Western countries, including Finland. However, its superpower aspirations will remain unchanged.

Economic security is an integral part of Finland’s national security. Digitisation of the economy has diversified threats to national security.

Retaining critical data in cloud services creates risks to data availability and information security. Finnish society is increasingly dependent on data centres located in other parts of the world.

Policymaking and businesses that develop high-tech products are targets of foreign espionage.

Cyber espionage is a potent and inexpensive way to access a significant volume of information that is intended to be confidential. State-sponsored cyber espionage operations also exploit the network devices of Finnish individuals and companies in their operations.

Russia and China continue to actively engage in intelligence and influencing activities against Finland.

Russia and China continue to actively engage in intelligence and influencing activities against Finland.

In the following scenarios, experts from the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service examine how technological development, societal polarisation and new generations will affect the development of terrorist activity until 2030. Radical Islamist and far-right terrorism constitute the greatest threat of terrorism in Finland and Europe.

Russia does not want to jeopardise its freedom of navigation in the Baltic Sea. In case of a maritime emergency or accident, there is a risk of messages getting misinterpreted between different parties as each coastal state is protecting its own interests.

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionised the world in many ways. Furthermore, the development of AI provides unfriendly state actors with tools for new and more effective influencing operations.

Supo applies intelligence methods to combat terrorism, seeking to detect terrorist activities and related phenomena at the earliest possible stage.

Security clearance vetting seeks to prevent information of importance to Finland’s security from falling into the wrong hands. Security clearance vetting is only conducted for functions specified by law.

China is striving to shape the world order to serve its own interests through cooperating with Russia, building international alliances with the Global South and attempting to harness international structures to support its own goals.

The scope of security clearance vetting depends on the duties of a job. Sometimes security clearance vetting also involves investigating foreign interests.

27.2.2026 | National Security Overview 2021 NATIONAL SECURITY OVERVIEW 2021 Summary of the overview Intelligence and influencing operations targeting Finland Intelligence services seek to use embedded human intelligence sources to obtain reliable and forward-...

The threat level of terrorism in Finland stands at level three, elevated, on a five-point scale. The national terrorism situation is strongly linked to international trends. Terrorist attacks in Western countries are also likely to inspire such incidents in Finland.

The threat level of terrorism in Finland stands at level three, elevated, on a five-point scale. The national terrorism situation is strongly linked to international trends. Terrorist attacks in Western countries are also likely to inspire such incidents in Finland.

27.2.2026 | National Security Overview 2022 NATIONAL SECURITY OVERVIEW 2022 Foreign intelligence and influence operations Foreign intelligence services seek to obtain reliable and predictive informa- tion about Finland and its people that is not otherwise ava...

15.12.2025 | Russia and China will not shy away from using any means available in the competition for innovations of even Finnish companies in current key technologies and future disruptive technologies.