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“There are different aspects to cyber security and cyber-attacks. But all current security approaches tend to make use of the same technology, making it difficult to judge who is attacking what and why. Within this context, it should be examined what cyber security can offer at another level, contributing and protecting the EU citizens. Cyber security is the EU’s ‘digital frontier.”

Helmbrecht said that the security of network and information systems is essential to the security of all the critical sectors in society, noting that disruptions to these infrastructures and services are becoming more frequent and are estimated to result in annual losses in the range of €260- €340 billion Euros ($416-$544 billion dollars).

“Various recent studies, including those of ENISA, demonstrate that the threat landscape will get worse, unless we take firm action,” Helmbrecht said.

Learn more:

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/visual-cyber-security-see-attacks-on-real-time/

EU security agency Enisa has released a new paper recommending that policy-makers promote “privacy friendly” services – a move that appears to set it at odds with British PM David Cameron. The UK leader pledged yesterday to ban the use of strong encryption in communications.

The European Network and Information Security Agency, to give it its full name, argued in its report that privacy is a “fundamental human right” according to the European Convention on Human Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) like encryption are an important technical means of fighting off challenges to privacy, Enisa said in its report, Privacy and Data Protection by Design – from policy to engineering.

Learn more:

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/privacy-in-the-digital-world-shouldnt-we-talk-about-it/