Governance, risk & compliance A new age for
yberattacks are not new – and the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity should know. As ENISA itself reported recently, there were 230,000 new malware infections every day between January 2019 and April 2020. Meanwhile, Europol’s 2021 Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment highlighted a “notable” increase in the number of ransomware attacks on public institutions and large companies. Against this backdrop, increasing digitisation has meant public administration, at both the national and EU levels, have come to rely on technologies as a means of carrying out their core functions, a process that has been intensified by Covid-19. Indeed the pandemic, which resulted in 40% of
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The EU’s new Cybersecurity Act, originally adopted in April 2019 and effective from June 2021, establishes a cybersecurity certifi cation framework for products and services that promises to fundamentally reform how the issue is tackled across the bloc. Martin Morris talks to Juhan Lepassaar, executive director at the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), about how the new regime will operate for companies, and whether heightened cooperation between business and government is expected in the longer term.
EU workers switching to remote working in early 2020, also provided increased opportunities for cybercriminals – including attacks on critical infrastructure. That’s particularly given the number of devices available to exploit.
Key to addressing this, the EU Cybersecurity Act is intended to advance trust through an EU-wide certification framework, which includes cybersecurity certification schemes and “common cybersecurity requirements and evaluation criteria across national markets and sectors”.
The act makes particular reference to internet of things (IoT) devices and related products, where the existing regime is deemed insufficiently developed from a cybersecurity standpoint – this
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