Commission welcomes agreement to make EU online environment more secure
Negotiators of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have agreed on the first EU-wide legislation on cybersecurity.
Negotiators of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have agreed on the first EU-wide legislation on cybersecurity.
"Today, a milestone has been achieved: we have agreed on first ever EU-wide cyber-security rules, which the Parliament has advocated for years", said Parliament's rapporteur Andreas Schwab (EPP, DE), after the deal was clinched.
As technology benefits will keep on growing and evolving, cyber threats will too.
A strong cybersecurity policy for each government is needed in order to mitigate cyber risks and preventing all newly emerging trends.
While European officials launched the EU Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive as a first attempt at crafting cyber security legislation back in march 2015, policy harmonization and preparedness between EU member states are still missing.
Throughout October 2015, you can join one of the dozens of events, webinars, and other actions that are part of October-European Cyber Security Month (ECSM), which kicked-off on September 30th in Brussels. More than 100 events and activities in 27 countries will help us all protect ourselves from cyber threats through information security advice, competitions, education opportunities and sharing of good practices.
The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) has been involved for several years now in a mapping exercise of the cybersecurity strategies in Europe and the world. The work done has not only produced a listing of all the related strategy documents but also an interactive tool that illustrates the status of the strategies woldwide.
Technology is ever evolving and new cyber threats continue to be devised. Unfortunately, cybersecurity is not yet at the core of many national and industrial technology strategies.
This is why WISER’s aim is to develop a multi-staged methodology to continuously, consistently and appropriately govern cyber strategy.
The ‘EU28 Cloud Security Conference: Reaching the Cloud Era in the European Union’ was aimed at bringing together practitioners, academics and policy makers to discuss the level of cloud computing security in the context of current and future policy activities.
The Cybersecurity Strategy for the European Union and the Eurpean Commission proposal for a Directive on Network and Information Security put forward legal measures and give incentives aiming at making the EU's digital environment the most secure in the world.