The EU Agency for Cybersecurity publishes a Cybersecurity Procurement Guide for Hospitals. Healthcare IT professionals have a new instrument in their toolbox. The hospital is a vast ecosystem comprised of an entire network of devices, equipment and systems that often require connection to external systems, making monitoring and control a very hard task to do. […]
E-Health Security Experts Group ENISA
The EU Agency for Cybersecurity launches this call for participation with the aim to invite experts to join this expert group that focuses on eHealth Security. The EU Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) eHealth Security Experts Group is the second iteration of the expert group focusing in the healthcare sector, initially created in 2015. The creation […]
Secure 5G networks
The Commission is today endorsing the joint toolbox of mitigating measures agreed by EU Member States to address security risks related to the rollout of 5G, the fifth-generation of mobile networks. Member States have since identified risks and vulnerabilities at national level and published a joint EU risk assessment. Through the toolbox, the Member States are committing […]
Published the new survey on cybercrime in the EU
The Commission has released its latest survey on Europeans’ attitudes towards cybercrime. The results show that awareness of cybercrime is rising, with 52% of respondents stating they are fairly well or very well informed about cybercrime, up from 46% in 2017. Europeans are however growing less confident about their capacity to stay safe online: 59% of Internet […]
Joint Cybercrime Action Task Force: Board Meeting and Results
The Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT), an international initiative to tackle the most pressing threats of cybercrime, met within the framework of its Board in Rome, Italy, to discuss operational and strategic matters for the year ahead. The objective of this Taskforce, launched in 2014, is to drive intelligence-led, coordinated actions against key cybercrime threats and targets by […]
Postdoctoral Researcher Position in the area of Cyber Security, Trust and Privacy
Organisation “Aalto University is a community of bold thinkers where science and art meet technology and business. We are committed to identifying and solving grand societal challenges and building an innovative future. Aalto has six schools with nearly 11,000 students and a staff of more than 4000, of which 400 are professors. Our main campus […]
Pseudonymisation as a tool for the GDPR
Last 12 November 2019, ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, co-organised a workshop on “Pseudonymisation and relevant security techniques” with the Unabhängige Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein (ULD), the Data Protection Authority of the German Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein. Pseudonymisation is a well-known de-identification process that has gained additional attention following the adoption of GDPR, […]
Member States publish a report on EU coordinated risk assessment of 5G networks security
The Member States, with the support of the Commission and the European Agency for Cybersecurity published on the 9th October a report on the EU coordinated risk assessment on cybersecurity in Fifth Generation (5G) networks. This major step is part of the implementation of the European Commission Recommendation adopted in March 2019 to ensure a high level of […]
European Cyber Security Challenge 2019 kicks off in Bucharest
The European Cyber Security Challenge will take place between the 9th and the 11th of October 2019 in Bucarest. The annual European event that brings together young talent from across Europe to have fun and compete in cybersecurity! The sixth edition of the European Cyber Security Challenge (ECSC) will kick off next week at the […]