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The head of the new European Cybercrime Centre Troels Oerting, writing exclusively for PublicServiceEurope.com, highlights the challenges ahead and warns those engaging in criminal behaviour that the EU is about to get tough...
So we - as a society - are losing valuable data, money, ideas, innovation and private information every day. Together we need to find a way to stop this from happening.
The European Cybercrime Centre has been established to assist member state law enforcement in this endeavour and to include all relevant stakeholders in this task. We will not be able to take responsibility for all the initiatives needed but the centre will focus on providing operational support to cases, coordination of intelligence inside the EU, coordinating capacity building, enhancing the way we assess the immediate and future threats and creating a trusted relationship with private and public partners inside the EU and abroad.
We will have a very inclusive approach. The centre will build on existing structures and work, and coordinate efforts to streamline the work and obtain the best possible results for the cheapest investment. Absolute security in cyberspace is not possible. But if we work together, we can do much more and achieve a safer cyber world for all. And we can create a much more secure digital infrastructure, which we can rely upon as the future 'engine' for our way out of the present economic recession.
As it is now, cyber security is an endless game of defence - which is very costly and inefficient in the long run. We need to invest more in catching the perpetrators and make it unattractive to commit crime in cyberspace...
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