The InfoSurance foundation fulfils a national mandate.
Prominent companies sponsor the foundation.
Personalities from the economic and scientific sectors fix its objectives and guarantee its competencies. The legal structure of the foundation allows it to apply a mixed financing. The society must have free and safe access to the information infrastructure To recognise and analyse the risks for Switzerland, of its growing dependency on information technologies. To sensitise decision-makers as well as public and private IT users as to the risks and dangers of information technologies. To collect technical and organisational prerequisites for the early detection and prevention of dangers as well as the prevention and minimisation of damages.