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2019-06-13 | Vision for a Stronger Cybersecurity Community going forward – an ENISA industry event | On 12 June 2019, ENISA and the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the European Union organised an industry event in Brussels. |
The year 2019 already marks a challenging year for the European Union. The EU is facing multiple geopolitical challenges simultaneously, such as Brexit, but also cybersecurity related challenges such as maintaining EU’s digital sovereignty and securing European elections from outside interference. The EU is confronted... |
2019-06-07 | The EU Cybersecurity Act: a new Era dawns on ENISA | Today, 7th June 2019, the EU Cybersecurity Act was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. |
The EU Cybersecurity Act will come into force on 27th June 2019.
In a shift towards a role that adds more value to the European Union, ENISA, which will henceforth be known as the EU Agency for Cybersecurity and will receive a permanent mandate.
Find out more: https://europa.eu/!bX86Fp.
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2019-06-06 | Will you be Europe’s best cybersecurity talent? | European countries have started or are preparing to kick off their national cybersecurity competitions. The winners of the national contests will represent their countries in the ultimate cybersecurity competition on the continent: the European Cyber Security Challenge (ECSC) 2019. |
Similar to the ECSC, the national cybersecurity competitions consist of security-related challenges from domains such as web security, mobile security, crypto puzzles, reverse engineering, and forensics, which the participants have to solve in order to collect points. The individuals with the most points win the compe... |
2019-06-05 | Telecoms taken by storm: Natural phenomena dominate the outage picture | A total of 157 telecom outages were reported by the 28 EU member states and 2 EFTA countries, as part of the EU-wide telecom security breach reporting for the year 2018. Today ENISA, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, publishes the 8th annual report on telecom security incidents, analyzing root causes, impact, and trends... |
For the full report please visit: Annual Report Telecom Security Incidents 2018
In total the incident reports add up to 960 million user hours lost, i.e. an average of around 2 hours per subscriber per year. User hours is a metric that is used to quantify the impact of an incident, by multiplying the number of subsc... |
2019-06-04 | Artificial Intelligence: an opportunity for cyber-crisis management in the EU | On 3 and 4 June 2019, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, ENISA organised a conference in Athens, which focused on the future of the EU cyber-crisis management. The advantages and challenges were identified, particularly where the use of artificial intelligence is concerned. |
The aims of the conference were twofold, firstly, it provided a discussion forum for EU Organisations and Bodies which are the main stakeholders of the Blueprint proposal for a cyber crisis cooperation framework. Secondly, on day 2, experts on artificial intelligence from the private sector and academia discussed the... |
2019-06-03 | ICANN CEO visits ENISA to discuss cybersecurity of the internet infrastructure | Today the CEO of ICANN, Göran Marby, and Elena Plexida, Senior director at ICANN, visited the ENISA offices in Athens to discuss cybersecurity of the internet infrastructure. |
ICANN is an international, non-governmental and non-profit organization which manages the internet's namespace, i.e. the internet domain names, the DNS root registries. ICANN coordinates the global IP address space by handing out blocks of IP addresses to regional internet registries, like RIPE NCC for Europe. ICANN a... |
2019-06-03 | ENISA meets Energy Community | On 28 May ENISA welcomed the Energy Community delegation at its headquarters. |
The objective of the meeting was to engage ENISA with stakeholders from the energy sector, exchange views and create possible synergies.
Interesting discussions took place where ENISA and the Energy Community presented their activities in the energy sector cybersecurity. The Cybersecurity Act as well as the security c... |
2019-05-24 | ENISA Permanent Stakeholders Group meets in Athens | On 23 and 24 May 2019, ENISA welcomed the members of its Permanent Stakeholders Group (PSG) at the Agency’s headquarters in Athens. |
The Executive Director of the Agency, Udo Helmbrecht chaired the meeting. He started by presenting the participants with the status and priorities of the Cybersecurity Act.
One of the most important items on the agenda tackled the role of the PSG in light of the new mandate of the Agency.
Mr. Purser gave input on ENIS... |
2019-05-23 | ENISA's workshop in Warsaw to discuss innovation in the context of National Cyber Security Strategies | On 26 September 2019, ENISA will organise in Warsaw a workshop in cooperation with the Polish National Research Institution NASK to discuss innovation in the context of National Cyber Security Strategies (NCSS). |
The discussions will focus on national objectives and priorities supporting research and innovation of cybersecurity technologies and services. National experts will have the opportunity to share good practices and discuss gaps and challenges related to funding, incentives, collaboration mechanisms and policy initiati... |
2019-05-20 | ENISA is setting the ground for Industry 4.0 Cybersecurity | The EU Agency for Cybersecurity ENISA is stepping up its efforts to foster cybersecurity for Industry 4.0 by publishing a new paper on ‘Challenges and Recommendations for Industry 4.0 Cybersecurity’ . |
This work is following up on the recently published seminal study on ‘Good Practices for Security of IoT in the context of Smart Manufacturing
ENISA follows a holistic and comprehensive approach to the issues related to cybersecurity in Industry 4.0. It identifies the main challenges of facing the adoption of security... |
2019-05-17 | High time to protect the internet route map: Here are 7 basics | BGP hijacks, hacking the internet route map, continue to happen. Despite years of warnings by security experts. This spells danger for national security, privacy of citizens, and the resilience of the internet, both in Europe and globally. |
Last year ENISA surveyed a range of large and small providers across the EU, confirming that BGP hijacks are an issue also in the EU: 44% of respondents said that the impact of BGP incidents is high, affecting large numbers of users and last for many hours, and 93% say it needs an urgent fix.
The Border Gateway Proto... |
2019-05-17 | External audit on ENISA's 2018 financial accounts | Independent auditors have issued an opinion on ENISA’s 2018 annual accounts. |
The auditors’ report concluded that both 2018 financial and budgetary performances of the Agency are fairly presented and in accordance with the financial regulations of the European Commission and the International Public Sector Accounting Standards. The annual accounts include the financial statements and the report... |
2019-05-17 | ENISA delivers course on incident management | ENISA was present at the Cybersecurity Organisational and Defensive Capabilities course in Cyprus - a pilot activity under the Cyber ETEE platform, and delivered a course titled "Incident Management: Tactics and Techniques". |
The course gave the participants an insight into the basics of defending an infrastructure and a thorough review of an incident lifecycle, detailing all steps and talking audience through a case study with questions that initiated fruitful discussions.
The main takeaway of the discussions was that there is no ‘one-siz... |
2019-05-16 | Testing cooperation of EU CSIRTs Network during large-scale cyber-attacks | On 15 May 2019, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity ENISA organised and participated in CyberSOPEx2019, the second dedicated cooperation exercise of the EU CSIRTs Network (CNW). |
The role of ENISA was twofold. On the one hand, the CSIRT Relations team actively participated as the secretariat of CNW, as defined by the NIS Directive. In this regard, ENISA provides overall support to CNW and manages tools for cooperation among all members. On the other hand, ENISA’s exercise team, which also orga... |
2019-05-15 | Recommendation on the usage of community and public cloud computing services in Hungary, defined by Magyar Nemzeti Bank | Magyar Nemzeti Bank, that is the central bank of Hungary, published its updated recommendation on the usage of community and public cloud computing services in May 2019. |
The objective of this recommendation is to provide practical guidance to
entities in the financial intermediary system for managing the risks arising from the
use of community and public cloud computing services and for the uniform interpretation of relevant national and European Union legislation.
The recommendation... |
2019-05-15 | From start-up to enterprise: ENISA's recommendations on building EU cyber-champions | ENISA publishes today a study that intends to provide useful information to cybersecurity start-ups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), in order to support their development. |
Based on feedback from key experts, such as founders of start-ups, venture capitals, incubators, accelerators and public institutions, ENISA identifies a number of specific challenges and opportunities faced by NIS start-ups in their development within the EU.
ENISA's report concludes with a set of recommendations to... |
2019-05-14 | Cybersecurity of smart cars high on ENISA’s agenda | On 13 and 14 May 2019, ENISA welcomed representatives from ACEA – the European Automobile Manufacturers Association and CLEPA – the European Association of Automotive Suppliers expert groups on cybersecurity at its headquarters in Athens. |
With the aim to strengthen relations with stakeholders from the automotive industry, automotive suppliers and manufacturers discussed with ENISA experts about pertinent matters, including ENISA’s ongoing work on automotive cybersecurity, the NIS Directive, the EU Cybersecurity Certification Group, and methods and prac... |
2019-05-03 | Informal Expert Group on EU Member States Incident Response Development | ENISA launches this Call for Participation to invite experts to participate in its expert group. |
ENISA is concentrating its efforts on assisting MS with their incident response capabilities by providing a state-of-the-art view of the CSIRT landscape and development in Europe. One of the main objective of this work is to further develop and apply ENISA recommendations for the CSIRT capability development.
As par... |
2019-04-16 | Behavioural aspects of cybersecurity | Technical cybersecurity measures do not exist in a vacuum and need to operate in harmony with people. Against this backdrop, ENISA publishes a report comprising four evidence-based reviews of human aspects of cybersecurity: two based on the use and effectiveness of models from social science, one on qualitative studies... |
In summary, ENISA found a relatively small number of models, none of which were a particularly good fit for understanding, predicting or changing cybersecurity behaviour. Many ignored the context in which much cybersecurity behaviour occurs (i.e. the workplace), and the constraints and other demands on people’s time a... |
2019-04-05 | EU Member States test their cybersecurity preparedness for fair and free 2019 EU elections | Today the European Parliament, the EU Member States, the European Commission and the EU Agency for cybersecurity (ENISA) organised an exercise to test the EU’s response and crisis plans for potential cybersecurity incidents affecting the EU elections. |
The objective of the exercise, which took place today in the European Parliament, was to test how effective EU Member States and the EU's response practices and crisis plans are. It also aimed to identify ways to prevent, detect and mitigate cybersecurity incidents that may affect the upcoming EU elections. This exerc... |
2019-04-04 | ENISA supports Portuguese National Exercise on Elections | In the framework of the upcoming elections and further to an official request from the Portuguese National Cybersecurity Centre (CNCS), the EU Agency for Cybersecurity ENISA actively supports Portugal's National Cybersecurity Exercise (ExNCS) held on 3rd and 4th April 2019. |
In its second edition, the exercise focuses on the resilience of the electoral process, engaging a large number of stakeholders from public as well private organisations. The exercise tests the coordinated response at different levels, the information exchange processes and the national contingency plans.
ENISA offers... |
2019-04-01 | New ENISA office inaugurated in Heraklion – Crete, Greece | On 1 April 2019, the Executive Director of ENISA, Udo Helmbrecht, the Secretary General of Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media, Vasilis Maglaras, the Regional Councillor of Crete, Giorgos Alexakis on behalf of the Governor of Crete Region Stavros Arnaoutakis, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors at FORTH... |
This new establishment, as well as the Athens headquarters of the Agency, is provided by the Hellenic authorities in virtue of the seat agreement between ENISA and Greece, which sets down the details of arrangements for the operations of ENISA in Greece.
Executive Director Helmbrecht said: “I want to thank the Hellen... |
2019-03-20 | ENISA: 15 years of building cybersecurity bridges together | On 19 March 2019, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity ENISA organised an event in Brussels to celebrate its 15-year anniversary. |
Prof. Dr. Udo Helmbrecht, Executive Director of the Agency, and distinguished guests representing the European Parliament, the European Commission, and the EU Member States delivered speeches, including a keynote speech from honorary guest, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, Mariya Gabriel.Commissi... |
2019-03-15 | Privacy standards for information security | Over the last decade, there has been a significant development of privacy standards, which aim at contributing to the integration of privacy requirements into information processes, systems and services. |
Such integration is fundamental to protect personal identifiable information, particularly in digital environments and it may support the implementation of relevant privacy and data protection legislation.
This ENISA study, explores how the standards-developing world has been responding to the fast-changing and demand... |
2019-03-14 | Security and privacy considerations in autonomous agents | While innovative autonomous agents, making use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), have transformed accessing and leveraging of data, a broad range of applications need to be revisited to mitigate their impact. |
Autonomous agents range from smartphones applications to autonomous robots supporting the supply chain in product development, for example; a key aspect in this regard is the data collected, mainly to support functionalities in a qualitative and timely manner.
Depending on the level of autonomy and context of operatio... |
2019-03-13 | Cybersecurity for the EU telecom sector: The ENISA Article 13a Expert Group concludes a successful meeting in Stockholm, Sweden | Last week the 27th ENISA Article 13a Expert group meeting took place in Stockholm, Sweden, bringing together 70 experts from all over Europe attended the event, hailing from private sector, public sector, R&D institutes, vendors, consultancy firms, etc. |
The Article 13a Expert Group was set up almost 10 years ago by ENISA, under the auspices of the European Commission, to agree on a harmonised implementation of Article 13a of the Telecom Framework Directive, which requires EU countries to supervise the security of telecom networks and services in the EU. Information a... |
2019-03-11 | ENISA supports CSIRT-CY in maturity assessment | On 7 March 2019, certified experts from ENISA, together with representative from the National Cybersecurity Centre of Portugal concluded the peer review process of assessing maturity level of National CSIRT of The Republic of Cyprus. |
CSIRT-CY is responsible for the increase of the security posture of Cyprus by enhancing the cyber protection of its National Critical Information Infrastructures, banks and Internet Service Providers.
Peer review is an important part of ENISA CSIRT maturity evaluation process. It is addressed to CSIRT teams, to help t... |
2019-03-08 | Happy International Women's Day from all of us at ENISA! | Today 8 March 2019, ENISA celebrates International Women’s Day by acknowledging and praising the invaluable contribution that women bring to cybersecurity in the European Union. |
ENISA has been developing and implementing a gender balance project. Thanks to this initiative, about 47% of ENISA staff is now female.
On this joyous occasion, ENISA is pleased to join and have an information stand at the “Cyber Aware: Spotlight on Women in Cyber” event organised by the European Commission and is lau... |
2019-03-01 | ENISA Industry Event for Small and Medium Enterprises | The annual ENISA Industry Event took place today in Brussels, Belgium, and saw the participation of over 70 representatives of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) community active in cybersecurity in the EU. |
Steve Purser, ENISA Head of Core Operations Department said: “We discussed about ENISA’s continuous efforts to cooperate with and strengthen the EU SME community, touching upon important topics such as the cyber threat intelligence capability framework and maturity model, the technological foresight methodology and al... |
2019-02-28 | ENISA makes recommendations on EU-wide election cybersecurity | In the context of the upcoming elections for the European Parliament, today the EU Agency for Cybersecurity ENISA publishes an opinion paper on the cybersecurity of elections and provides concrete and forward-looking recommendations to improve the cybersecurity of electoral processes in the EU. |
ENISA explores cyber-enabled threats, which have the potential to undermine the EU democratic process. Of particular significance is the possibility of interference in elections by cyber means, due to the widespread use of digital technology to support electoral processes in activities such as confidential communicati... |
2019-02-26 | ENISA supports Portuguese National Cybersecurity Exercise on electoral process | In the context of the upcoming double elections in Portugal, the Portuguese National Cybersecurity Centre CNCS have requested the EU Agency for Cybersecurity ENISA to support a cybersecurity exercise on the electoral process. |
The exercise, called ExNCS 2019, will be organised in cooperation with CNE – the National Elections Commission of Portugal.
ENISA will actively support the Portuguese authorities by providing its unique cyber exercise expertise and capabilities. As part of the exercise scenario, the electoral process will be put to t... |
2019-02-15 | European Cyber Security Month 2018 at a glance | Continued growth of European Cyber Security Month – will you get involved in 2019? |
ENISA publishes the ‘2018 European Cyber Security Month deployment report’, a summary of the activities organised by the Agency and participating Member States in October 2018. The report is a synthesis of findings based on evaluation and performance information gathered by collecting feedback and open source informat... |
2019-02-15 | New national strategy for cybersecurity published by Norway | On 30 January 2019, the Norwegian Government launched a new national strategy to strengthen society's cybersecurity. |
The Prime Minister, the Minister of Public Security, the Minister of Justice and Immigration, the Minister of Defence and the Minister of Research and Higher Education - all took part in the launch of the strategy.
The new strategy is Norway's fourth cybe security strategy, and is intended to address the challenges t... |
2019-02-12 | Better security measures for smartphones, ENISA has created a SMAShiNG new tool! | ENISA releases SMAShiNG – SMArtphone Secure developmeNt Guidelines – an online tool that maps security measures for smartphone guidelines. The tool supports developers to build secure mobile applications. |
The SMAShiNG tool supports developers to build secure mobile applications. It is technologically agnostic, hence can be applied to all mobile applications developed for any operating system on the market nowadays
New developments in both software and hardware area have resulted into new significant threats for the mob... |
2019-02-11 | ENISA meets OSCE and the National Cyber Security Authority of Greece | ENISA welcomed on Friday 8 February, at its premises the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). |
The meeting was organised together with the National Cyber Security Authority (Ministry of Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media/ General Secretariat of Digital Policy) of Greece.
ENISA representatives provided an overview of ENISA's work regarding policy, expertise advice, hands-on work and collaboration with ... |
2019-02-07 | What is "state of the art" in IT security? | ENISA and TeleTrusT - IT Security Association Germany have published their guidelines in English |
In many European countries, national legislators are pursuing the objective of reducing the deficiencies in IT security. In addition, the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) with its high requirements for technical and organisational measures has been in force since 25 May 2018. Both legal sources ... |
2019-02-06 | CSIRTs and incident response capabilities in Europe | As part of its continuous efforts to assist the EU Member States with their incident response capabilities, ENISA publishes a study on the recent and current evolution of Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) and Incident Response (IR) capabilities in Europe. |
The study focuses on providing insights on whether cooperation between different players, particularly CSIRTs, is spontaneous or driven by regulation. The prospective vision of the analysis tries to identify the key evolutions in the CSIRT-IRC landscape within a 5-year timeframe.For the purpose of this study, ENISA sp... |
2019-02-05 | ENISA celebrates Safer Internet Day | Today the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, ENISA celebrates Safer Internet Day. The Agency has been an active supporter of Safer Internet Day for over nine years, and has launched several studies related to the subject matter, on privacy and security in personal data clouds and cyber hygiene practices. |
ENISA has also played a key role in the EU's Cybersecurity Strategy to increase people's awareness of the key role they can play in ensuring the security of networks and information systems, notably by its active involvement in the European Cyber Security Month. ENISA has created video clips, posters and illustrations... |
2019-02-01 | ENISA and FORTH met to boost collaboration and pave the way for joint cybersecurity projects in Crete | On 31 January 2019, ENISA was pleased to welcome a delegation from the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) to its new premises in Heraklion, Crete. |
The two teams together with ENISA’s Executive Director, Prof. Udo Helmbrecht and the Chairman of the Board of Directors at FORTH, Prof. Nektarios Tavernarakis, exchanged information on cybersecurity projects and discussed ways to boost their collaboration following the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) ... |
2019-01-31 | Your must-have IoT security checklist: ENISA’s online tool for IoT and Smart Infrastructures Security | ENISA releases today an online tool aimed at guiding IoT operators and industries of IoT and Smart Infrastructure when conducting risk assessments. |
The tool, available at https://www.enisa.europa.eu/iot-tool , will help users save time when identifying threats and prioritising security areas of importance.
The tool provides a combined view of the security good practices that ENISA has been developing for the last years to secure IoT, Industry 4.0 and Smart Infras... |
2019-01-30 | ENISA publishes training course material on network forensics for cybersecurity specialists | ENISA has introduced an updated and improved set of training materials on network forensics. |
Based on current best practices, the training includes performance indicators and means that will help those who take it increase their operational skills of tackling cyber-incidents.
Network forensics is more important than ever, since more and more data is sent via networks and the internet. When there is a security... |
2019-01-29 | National Liaison Officers Network of ENISA has first meeting in 2019 | ENISA today hosted the first meeting in 2019 of its National Liaison Officers Network (NLO) in Athens, Greece. |
The meeting was chaired by Steve Purser, ENISA’s Head of Core Operations Department. Mr. Purser opened the meeting by addressing the latest developments in the life of the Agency – the new mandate brought forward by the proposed cybersecurity act, and the proposal to make the NLO a statutory body of ENISA.
The NLO ini... |
2019-01-28 | Denmark launches six new sectoral cyber and information strategies | January 7th, the Danish Government announced a set of new strategies aimed at intensifying efforts against cyber-attacks within six sectors that provide essential services to society. |
As part of the implementation of the Danish National Cyber and Information Strategy (2018-2021) each of six designated sectors – health, bank & finance, telecommunications, shipping, transportation, and energy – are required to formulate a sectoral cyber and information strategy. The sectoral strategies were published... |
2019-01-28 | Hope is stronger than fear: ENISA celebrates the European Data Protection Day | ENISA today celebrates the 13th European Data Protection Day. This date marks the anniversary of the Council of Europe Convention 108 on the protection of personal information that provides an impetus for the protection of personal data in the EU allaying the fear of abuse and malpractice. |
On this occasion, ENISA shares some of its work in the fields of shaping technology according to GDPR provisions and security of personal data processing.
An overview of data pseudonymisation
ENISA today publishes a new report, which discusses the notion of pseudonymisation and its role under the General Data Protecti... |
2019-01-28 | Exposure to cyber-attacks in the EU remains high - New ENISA Threat Landscape report analyses the latest cyber threats | In 2018, the cyber threat landscape changed significantly. The most important threat agent groups, namely cyber-criminals and state-sponsored actors have further advanced their motives and tactics. Monetisation motives contributed to the appearance of crypto-miners in the top 15 cyber threats. |
Advances in defence have also been assessed: law enforcement authorities, governments and vendors were able to further develop active defence practices such as threat agent profiling and the combination of cyber threat intelligence (CTI) and traditional intelligence. This led to a more efficient identification of atta... |
2019-01-24 | Good practices in the implementation of regulatory technical standards | ENISA publishes today ‘Good practices in the implementation of regulatory technical standards’, a study on the implementation of the PSD2 in the 28 Member States of the European Union. |
The study will provide stakeholders such as payment service providers, competent authorities, and EU Member States, with an overview of the implementation of the PSD2 in different national legislations.Payment service providers (PSPs) can rely on this study to understand the most important topics that have been taken ... |
2019-01-23 | Transport cybersecurity: Raising the bar by working together | The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) on 23 January organised in Lisbon the first Conference on Transport Cybersecurity, with the support of the European Commission (DG MOVE), the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) and the EU Agency ... |
170 public and private partners from all over Europe and representing all transport modes took part in the event. Together, they discussed the EU legal framework for cybersecurity, its relevance for the transport sector, and explored options for further cooperation.
Udo Helmbrecht, Executive Director of ENISA stated t... |
2019-01-17 | Forest for the trees: an IoT security standards gap analysis |
An ENISA analysis, which maps the existing standards against requirements on security and privacy in the area of the Internet of Things (IoT) yields that there is no significant standards gap - every requirement can be met by an existing standard. While standards exist for many different elements of making a device or... | |
2019-01-15 | Acceptance of eIDAS audits: Global or local? | ENISA has published a new report to explore the paths to global acceptance of the eIDAS auditing framework for trust service providers (TSPs) issuing qualified website authentication certificates (QWACs). |
The eIDAS Regulation sets up a framework to grant qualified status to an array of trust services (e.g. electronic signatures, seals etc.) aiming to enhance consumer trust in the digital environment. Qualified trust services undergo regular assessments by accredited bodies, overseen by national and EU authorities for t... |
2019-01-09 | Supporting the Fight Against Cybercrime: ENISA report on CSIRTs and Law Enforcement Cooperation | The fight against cybercrime, requires the involvement of Law Enforcement Agencies, which supported by CSIRTS are likely to be better positioned to investigate complex criminal structures. |
This cooperation is incomplete however, unless the judiciary is equally brought into the picture due to the pre-eminent role it plays across the MS in directing criminal investigations. While collecting evidence is important warranting its admissibility in a criminal trial is equally so. Admissibility of evidence reli... |
2019-01-03 | NCSC publishes four guides to stimulate cybersecurity collaboration | NCSC-NL has published four new guides on how to set up your own cybersecurity collaboration [1]. These guides and corresponding roadmaps are available on the NCSC website [2]. |
In recent years many successful collaborations are created by NCSC-NL and its partners within the government and Dutch vital infrastructure. The Dutch approach to public-private cooperation is unique and is built upon three important core values: trust, shared interests and equality. NCSC-NL believes public-private co... |
2018-12-20 | EU improves its capacity to tackle cyber crises: Cyber Europe 2018 after-action report | Established as the main EU civil cybersecurity exercise, Cyber Europe 2018 took place on 6 and 7 June. |
ENISA has compiled all the information gathered during the exercise and produced an after-action report and a closure video, identifying challenges and main takeaways, and making useful recommendations for the participants.
The main conclusion drawn is that the EU-level cooperation has improved considerably over the l... |
2018-12-19 | European research and development priorities in cybersecurity | A new ENISA report aims to identify the cybersecurity threats to European society and to identify priorities in research that will lead to mitigations before those cybersecurity threats materialise. |
The proposed research priorities have the aim to make Europe ”a global leader in cybersecurity by 2025, in order to ensure the trust, confidence and protection of our citizens, consumers and enterprises online, and to enable a free and law-governed internet”, as stated at the Tallinn Digital Summit in September 2017. ... |
2018-12-18 | New chair of the Article 19 Expert Group on security of e-Trust services | ENISA is happy to announce that Ulrich Latzenhofer from RTR Austria will be the new chair of the Article 19 Expert Group which focuses on security of electronic trust services in the EU. |
Electronic trust services is what we call services like digital signatures, digital certificates, electronic seals, timestamps, etc. used in electronic transactions, to make them secure, trustworthy. The eIDAS regulation, which came into force in 2016, provides the EU wide legal framework for both trust services and n... |
2018-12-14 | Assessment of Standards related to eIDAS | The eIDAS Regulation (EU) No 910/2014, lays down requirements for qualified electronic signature creation devices (QSCD) to ensure the functionality of advanced electronic signatures and seals. In the specific context of QSCD however, security evaluation and certification must be carried out against standards establish... |
While CID (EU) 2016/650 lays down standards for the security assessment of QSCDs at the time of drafting it there were no available standards for signing devices yet; consequently, a Trust Services Provider (TSP) managing signature creation data on behalf of the user was unable to support the creation of Qualified Ele... |
2018-12-14 | The economics of vulnerability disclosure | A new ENISA report aims to provide a glimpse into the costs, incentives, and impact related to discovering and disclosing vulnerabilities in information security. |
In addition, the report addresses economic factors, incentives and motivations that influence the behaviour of the different vulnerability disclosure actors, as well as two case studies of recently disclosed high-profile vulnerabilities that illustrate how the process occurs.
The full report can be accessed here.
The ... |
2018-12-12 | ENISA produces guidelines for assessing security measures in the context of net neutrality | In the world of the internet, security is a fast moving field and cyber-attacks are changing constantly. What may have been an appropriate security measure at one point in time may be considered unnecessary and disproportionate later on. |
According to the EU’s net neutrality regulation, called the Open Internet Regulation, which came into force in 2016, internet providers should treat all internet traffic to and from their customers equally. Security measures, like blocking traffic on certain ports, are only allowed under specific circumstances. One of... |
2018-12-11 | EU leaders agree on ground-breaking regulation for cybersecurity agency ENISA | ENISA welcomes the political agreement on the Cybersecurity Act reached on 10 December 2018 by the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, and the European Commission. Henceforth, ENISA will be known as ‘the EU Agency for Cybersecurity’. |
The agreement reinforces the mandate of the agency, to better support the EU Member States in dealing with cybersecurity threats and attacks.
Prof. Dr. Udo Helmbrecht, Executive Director of ENISA, said: ”Receiving a permanent mandate is a major achievement for ENISA. The European Union has taken another important step... |
2018-12-07 | Winners of ECSC 2018 attend ICT Exhibition | Representatives of Team Germany, winners of the 2018 European Cyber Security Challenge (ECSC), attended the ICT 2018 Exhibition in Vienna, Austria. |
Team Germany met with representatives of the Austrian authorities, the European Commission, ENISA, ECSO, and with junior researchers on cybersecurity from MIT and Harvard universities. Team Germany learnt about the latest EU news on cybersecurity policy and research, checked cybersecurity research results, linked with... |
2018-12-07 | More than 100 experts attend the joint NSA-ENISA Cybersecurity workshop in Bratislava | ENISA and the National Security Authority of Slovakia organized a cybersecurity workshop, with the goal of bringing together cybersecurity experts working in critical sectors like energy and finance, experts from CSIRTs and experts working at the national authorities with supervision tasks under the NIS Directive. |
The workshop featured a diverse set of over 100 participants from 15 countries from academia, research, finance, energy, European Commission, JRC, etc.
2018 is the year the NIS Directive gets implemented across the EU. Most countries have already transposed the NISD in their national laws and many countries are now in... |
2018-12-06 | Join the 1st transport cybersecurity conference | On 23 January 2019, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity ENISA will organise the ‘Transport Cybersecurity Conference’, in cooperation with the European Commission (DG MOVE), the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA), and the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). |
The conference will take place at EMSA’s premises, Conference Centre Loyola de Palacio, Lisbon, Portugal. It will bring together transport ministries, Information Sharing and Analysis Centres, international organisations, private industry, regulators, academia, and the management of EU Agencies and the European Commis... |
2018-11-30 | Good practices for identifying and assessing cybersecurity interdependencies | A glance at the interdependency landscape reveals several emerging interdependencies between operators of essential services (OES) and digital service providers (DSP), at both system and service level. Due to these interdependencies, there is an increasing number of cybersecurity incidents that either propagated across... |
Yet, despite the clear need to address interdependencies as part of their overall cybersecurity risk management, organisations and National Competent Authorities (NCA) face difficulties due to the lack of suitable methods, tools, available data and expertise.
In this context, ENISA publishes today a report aiming to s... |
2018-11-29 | ENISA releases online NIS Directive tool showing per sector the national authorities for operators of essential services and digital service providers | Today ENISA releases an interactive tool showing the relevant national laws and regulations, and per sector and subsector the national authorities supervising the NIS Directive. |
The NIS Directive tool is intended as a one-stop shop for experts from the industry linking to relevant ENISA work, national cybersecurity strategies, the CSIRT network, and the NIS Cooperation group website.
This year all EU member states are implementing the NIS directive in their countries. The NIS Directive is the... |
2018-11-29 | Finance security in the EU: ENISA hosts 21st meeting of EU FI-ISAC | On 20 and 21 November, ENISA hosted the meeting of the EU Financial Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (FI-ISAC) in Athens, Greece. |
The FI-ISAC Chairman Bruce Nikkel and FI-ISAC secretary Stephan Glaus opened the meeting by presenting new developments for the group.
More than 30 experts from banking institutions, law enforcement agencies and national CSIRTs of EU and EFTA countries, ECB, Europol and ENISA, discussed new evolutions in financial cyb... |
2018-11-28 | Information Security Audit and Self – Assessment Frameworks for operators of essential services and digital service providers | ENISA publishes today a report with good security self-assessment and audit practices for national competent authorities (NCA), digital service providers (DSP) and operators of essential services (OES). |
The report presents the steps of an information security audit process for OES, as well as of a self-assessment / management framework for DSP, as means to assess security and/or compliance with the security requirements set by the NIS Directive. The key outcome of the study is a set of good practices for audits and/o... |
2018-11-21 | ENISA is prepared to work closely with the stakeholders community on the proposed new Cybersecurity Certification Framework | On 20 November, ENISA hosted the conference ‘Towards the EU Cybersecurity Certification Framework’ in Brussels. |
This conference, which attracted an impressive line-up of experts from both the public and private sector, was a follow-up on the European Commission's proposal for a European cybersecurity certification framework under the Cybersecurity Act (CSA) Proposal and the previous ENISA conference organized on March 1st 2018 ... |
2018-11-19 | Cybersecurity is a key enabler for Industry 4.0 adoption | ENISA today publishes a study on good practices for IoT security, with a focus on smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0. |
The fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) is closely associated with the topic of cybersecurity. A rapidly increasing number of Industry 4.0 cybersecurity incidents emerge, additionally stressing the need to strengthen cyber resilience.
This is particularly true for industrial operators who are beginning to util... |
2018-11-15 | Telecom security in the EU: ENISA hosts a productive 26th meeting of Article 13a Expert Group | On 14 and 15 November, ENISA hosted the Article 13a expert group meeting in Athens, Greece. |
More than 30 experts from telecom regulators and supervisory authorities of 19 EU and EFTA countries, the European Commission and ENISA, discussed cross-cutting telecom security issues.
Highlights of the workshop include ENISA’s presentation of the new visual analysis tool, which allows stakeholders to analyse the inc... |
2018-11-15 | Cybersecurity – The Right Medicine for the eHealth Sector | On 14 November 2018, ENISA organised the fourth eHealth Security Conference ‘Towards a medical cybersecurity landscape’ in cooperation with the Dutch Ministry of Health. |
The conference, which was hosted by the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, had around 100 participants and over 20 speakers and panellists. It tackled various topics related to cybersecurity in the healthcare sector.
From regulatory aspects, such as the implementation of the NIS Directive by the EU ... |
2018-11-13 | Signing of the seat agreement between ENISA, Minister Pappas and Secretary General Maglaras on behalf of the Hellenic Authorities | The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) has today, the 13th November 2018, signed a new Seat Agreement in Athens. |
The Seat Agreement is a document prepared by the Hellenic Authorities, which sets down the detail of arrangements for the operations of ENISA in Greece.
At the signing ceremony, ENISA was represented by its Executive Director, Prof. Dr. Helmbrecht, and the Hellenic Authorities were represented by Minister Pappas, the... |
2018-11-07 | EU cybersecurity organisations agree on 2019 roadmap |
On 6 November 2018, following a meeting at working level, the four Principals of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA), the European Defence Agency (EDA), Europol and the Computer Emergency Response Team for the EU Institutions, Agencies an... | |
2018-11-05 | Vacancy : Executive Director of the European Union Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) | ENISA, the EU Cybersecurity Agency, is looking for a new Executive Director to lead a multidisciplinary team of professionals to support this key priority area for the future of the European digital single market. |
This vacancy has arisen following the completion of the 10 year term by the current Director which is the maximum period provided under the ENISA founding Regulation.
About ENISA
ENISA is a modern centre of expertise in cybersecurity supporting the EU Member States, Institutions, Agencies and Bodies, as well as the pr... |
2018-10-26 | ENISA welcomes representatives of the National Centre for Public Administration & Local Government | ENISA was pleased to host a visit by representatives of the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government on 25th October 2018, at its premises in Athens. |
The visit, led by Demetrios Tsimaras, Coordinator of the Documentation and Innovation Unit, provided an opportunity to the future high rank officials of Greek public administration to obtain an insight of the Agency’s objectives and work.
Demosthenes Ikonomou, Head of Operational Security Unit steered the meeting join... |
2018-10-25 | If your toothbrush calls you, it might not be for dental hygiene: the importance of securing the Internet of Things | Second ENISA-Europol conference tackles security challenges of IoT |
Our world is hyper-connected now. Current estimates are that there are around 10 billion electronic devices with access to the internet and that number will have at least doubled by 2020. In addition to the many advantages and opportunities, the emerging ability of connected devices to impact the physical world has al... |
2018-10-23 | A constructive and forward looking Permanent Stakeholder Group meeting | ENISA Permanent Stakeholder Group (PSG) met ENISA senior management on 22 and 23 October 2018 at the Agency’s premises in Athens. |
ENISA´s Executive Director, Udo Helmbrecht, chaired the meeting. The main topics covered on the agenda included:
The ENISA Regulation proposal: current progress and priorities
PSG input on Work Programme 2020 and Single Programming Document 2020-2022.
The full list of PSG members is available here. Complete informa... |
2018-10-18 | Looking back on European Cyber Security Challenge 2018: the afterglow of a synergetic competition | The fifth edition of the European Cyber Security Challenge (ECSC) organised by Cyberchallenge UK in cooperation with ENISA took place on 15 and 16 October 2018 at the Tobacco Dock in London, United Kingdom. |
The event brought together 170 participants, which were selected during cyber security challenges on a national level, to compete against each other in a pan-European spirit. New participating countries during this edition were Belgium and France.
It all started 5 years ago as the European Cyber Security tournament, i... |
2018-10-12 | Coming up: European Cyber Security Challenge 2018 in London, UK! | Organised by ENISA and hosted by the Cyber Challenge UK, the 2018 edition of the European Cyber Security Challenge (ECSC2018) will take place from 15 to 17 October 2018 at the Tobacco Dock in London, United Kingdom. |
During this year’s edition, national teams of 17 participating countries will compete in London. France and Poland are participating for the first time in ECSC.
ECSC2018 participants will need to demonstrate high technical skills and soft skills in order to win the competition. Teamwork and public speaking skills will... |
2018-10-09 | Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure: Guidelines published by NCSC | The Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Guideline that aims to support organisations with their CVD-policy was published last week by the Dutch National Cybersecurity Centre. |
During the One Conference 2018 that took place on 2 and 3 October in The Hague, NCSC published the “Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure: The Guideline".
The aim of the document is to improve the security of IT systems by sharing knowledge about vulnerabilities. Owners of IT systems can then mitigate vulnerabilities b... |
2018-10-08 | ENISA publishes annual report on trust services security incidents 2017 | ENISA publishes the first full-year annual report on security incidents with electronic trust services, covering 2017. |
The Annual Report Trust Services Security Incidents 2017 is available here.
Main findings:
Almost half of the security incidents had impact across borders
Half of the security incidents reported were severe (level 4 or 5 on a scale of 1 to 5)
E-signatures and e-seals were the most affected services
Most common root c... |
2018-10-05 | Get Cyber Skilled! | Today marks the kick-off of week two of the European Cyber Security Month, when ENISA, the European Commission, and European Schoolnet will focus on expanding the digital skills and education of citizens across Europe. |
‘Get cyber skilled’ is a campaign that aims to support the advancement of cybersecurity education and skills to the next generation.
European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel said: “Advancing cybersecurity skills and education of younger generations is important for keeping themselves and ot... |
2018-09-29 | Cross recognition of national eID schemes in the EU: one-step forward | As from 29 September 2018, the eIDAS Regulation creates new impetus across EU Member States (MS) as the latter will be obliged to recognise national systems of other MS, which have been notified to the European Commission and comply with eIDAS. |
Notification to the Commission is essential to ensure cross-recognition. The goal is to spearhead the use of cross border services in a range of relevant areas, like for instance, in banking, eGovernment, health care etc. These application areas can all benefit from the cross border use of eIDs issued in the country o... |
2018-09-28 | Cybersecurity is a shared responsibility: 2018 European Cyber Security Month kicks off | The sixth edition of the European Cyber Security Month (ECSM) kicks off today across the EU. The EU Cybersecurity Agency ENISA, the European Commission and over 200 partners from all over Europe will run this campaign throughout the whole month of October. |
ECSM is the European Union’s annual awareness raising campaign dedicated to promoting cybersecurity among citizens and organizations, providing up-to-date security information through education and sharing of best practices.
The 2018 European Cyber Security Month focuses on four themes, each one ... |
2018-09-20 | Submit your paper! Annual Privacy Forum 2019: Call for papers | The ENISA Annual Privacy Forum (APF) is a conference, organised yearly, on the conjuncture of information security and privacy that brings together contributions from policy, research and the industry. |
The APF 2019 will be held on 13-14 June 2019 in Rome, Italy, in co-operation with the University of Rome Tor Vergata and LUISS University.
Already in its seventh edition, the APF seeks to contribute to the implementation of information security in the area of privacy and personal data protection. The APF is set agains... |
2018-09-18 | ENISA launches the Cybersecurity Strategies Evaluation Tool | Today ENISA launches the Cybersecurity Strategies Evaluation tool. |
The new National Cybersecurity Strategies evaluation tool will help Member States evaluate their priorities according to their National Cyber Security Strategies. For each strategic objective, the tool offers recommendations and ideas on how to improve. ENISA developed the tool with the aim to provide results in a qui... |
2018-09-17 | Towards secure convergence of Cloud and IoT | ENISA publishes today a short paper aiming to identify and tackle the security challenges that the IoT ecosystem brings to Cloud and vice-versa. |
In the last few years, we have witnessed a burst of Internet of Things (IoT) products and Cloud has evolved to accommodate the needs of IoT applications, providing many new features specific to aggregating, storing and processing data generated by IoT.
This work combines the existing knowledge of ENISA in IoT and Clou... |
2018-09-13 | ENISA welcomes the European Commission proposal to create a network of Cybersecurity Competence Centres | ENISA welcomes the proposals by the President of the Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker in his State of the Union address on the 12th September 2018 to increase investment in cybersecurity in Europe. |
ENISA also welcomes the proposal on the creation of a Network of Cybersecurity Competence Centres including a new European Cybersecurity Industrial, Technology and Research Competence Centre to invest in stronger and pioneering cybersecurity capacity in the European Union.
Building on last year’s State of the Union’s ... |
2018-09-07 | 2018 CEF Telecom Call– €13 million to reinforce the EU's Cybersecurity capacity | The European Commission calls for proposals under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) to reinforce the EU's cybersecurity capacity, with up to €13 million available in grant funding, open until the 22 November 2018. |
CEF Telecom funding supports projects of common interest that contribute to increasing the interoperability, connectivity and deployment of trans-European digital infrastructures across the EU, improving the daily life of citizens, businesses and public administrations, and thereby contributing to the development of a... |
2018-08-31 | 169 telecom incidents reported, extreme weather major factor | Today ENISA publishes its annual report on major telecom security incidents that occurred in 2017 in the EU. |
The full report can be consulted at: Annual report Telecom security incidents 2017
169 incidents were reported by national telecom regulatory authorities in 2017 (NRAs)
System failures dominate: 62% of incidents are system failures, mainly hardware failures and software bugs
Major increase of extreme weather as a cau... |
2018-08-02 | Save the Date: 4th e-Health Security Conference | ENISA is organising the 4th eHealth Security workshop in cooperation with the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, on the 14th of November. |
The event will be hosted by the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
This event will focus on the aspects related to the implementation of the NIS Directive by the EU Member States, specifically for the Healthcare sector, and will highlight practices regarding the identification of operators of essent... |
2018-07-24 | ENISA and the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority organise the 6th ENISA NCSS workshop | ENISA is co-organising together with the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA) the 6th ENISA NCSS workshop in Helsinki, Finland on the 18th of September 2018. |
The event will focus on the development, implementation and evaluation of NCSS and the creation of Information Sharing and Analysis Centres (ISACs) in the EU.
Experts from different Member States will present and discuss development approaches, best practices, challenges and opportunities around these topics.The obje... |
2018-07-19 | Getting ready for the fifth ENISA FORTH NIS Summer School | The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) and the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) plan to hold the fifth edition of ENISA-FORTH Network and Information Security (NIS) Summer School event this year. |
The Summer School will be held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, from September 24th to 28th, 2018.
In the past, the Summer School on Network and Information Security (NIS) was conducted in four consecutive years, from 2008 to 2011. Due to its success, it is now ready to be brought back to life.
This year, besides keynote ... |
2018-06-29 | New National Cyber Security Agenda published by the Netherlands | The Dutch Government has recently published its National Cyber Security Agenda (NCSA). |
The NCSA comprises seven ambitions that contribute towards the following objective: The Netherlands is capable of capitalizing on the economic and social opportunities ofdigitalisation in a secure way and of protecting national security in the digital domain.
The Netherlands has adequate digital capabilities to detec... |
2018-06-19 | MEP Pavel Telička hosted breakfast discussion on Fake News in cooperation with ENISA | In the presence of several Members of the European Parliament, industry stakeholders, think tanks and EU media, the Vice-President of the European Parliament, Pavel Telicka and ENISA organised an informal breakfast to discuss Fake News. |
The term Fake News, more frequently described as the ‘dissemination of online disinformation’, has recently received a lot of media attention as a potential disruptor of democratic processes globally. There is a need to initiate a dialogue in the EU around the possible responses to this phenomenon. In this regard: the... |
2018-06-18 | New cyber and information security strategy for Denmark | A new National Cyber Security Strategy for Denmark has been published. |
In common with the rest of the world, technological development in Denmark is currently accelerating. Moreover, Denmark is increasingly connected via digital solutions, and public authorities, businesses and citizens are becoming ever more dependent on the Internet and on the opportunities afforded by the Internet.
Co... |
2018-06-15 | ENISA Annual Privacy Forum 2018: shaping technology around data protection and privacy requirements | The need to shape technology around data protection requirements and to invest in privacy-friendly business models was debated at the ENISA Annual Privacy Forum 2018. |
In the light of new technological challenges, GDPR can be the driving force for reengineering online systems and services to the benefit of end users’ privacy.
The ENISA Annual Privacy Forum 2018 (APF18) is a thematic conference that was co-organised with the European Commission - DG CNECT, the Polytechnic University ... |
2018-06-12 | Privacy matters: Join us in APF 2018! | On 13-14 June 2018, ENISA’s Annual Privacy Forum (APF) is bringing together research, policy and hands on approaches in the areas of privacy and data protection. |
This two-day event is organised this year in Barcelona in co-operation with the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and Telefonica.
In the aftermath of large scale attacks that aimed at breaching personal data at a massive scale, ENISA has looked into ways to engage with a broader audience and set up a network o... |
2018-06-07 | Cyber Europe 2018 – Get prepared for the next cyber crisis | EU Cybersecurity Agency ENISA organised an international cybersecurity exercise |
Imagine this: It is a normal day at the airport. All of a sudden, the automated check-in machines display a system failure. Travel apps on smartphones stop functioning. The agents at the check-in counters cannot operate their computers. Travellers can neither check in their luggage, nor pass thro... |
2018-05-25 | Taking rights seriously: GDPR starts applying today | Today, 25 May 2018, is a landmark in the protection of personal data and privacy of individuals, as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 starts applying after a long-lasting legislative process. |
With this regulation, the EU has legislated a robust solution, which addresses individual rights and relevant obligations of service providers, and is directly applicable to all EU Member States.
Prof. Udo Helmbrecht, Executive Director of ENISA emphasized the significance of 25 May: “Clearly, the application of GDPR,... |
2018-05-23 | Four EU cybersecurity organisations enhance cooperation | The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA), the European Defence Agency (EDA), the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and the Computer Emergency Response Team for the EU Institutions, Agencies and Bodies (CERT-EU) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a cooperation fram... |
The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Udo Helmbrecht, ENISA's Executive Director, Jorge Domecq, Chief Executive of the EDA, Steven Wilson, Head of EC3 and Ken Ducatel, CERT-EU's Acting Head.
The MoU aims at leveraging synergies between the four organisations, promoting cooperation on cyber security and cyber d... |
2018-05-15 | 3rd National Cyber Security Strategy for Luxembourg | The 3rd National Cyber Security Strategy for Luxembourg has been published |
The new version of the national cybersecurity strategy takes into account the feedback of the strategy covering the period 2015-2017.The topic of cybersecurity covers a wide range of measures which could be taken to improve the resilience and defence of computer systems and networks, on the one hand, and of digital te... |
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