News about Strengthening trust and security

The EU, US and Japan organised a week-long cybersecurity training for experts from partner countries in the Indo-Pacific region from March 8th to 12th.

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and the Computer Emergency Response Team for the EU Institutions, Bodies and Agencies (CERT-EU) are pleased to announce the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding.

The BROADGNSS consortium aims to exploit European satellite systems EGNOS and Galileo to improve the services that public safety and disaster relief organization offer to Europe’s citizens. The procurement aims to realise innovative solutions for a number of application areas to fulfil capability needs regarding the accuracy, reliability, assurance and cost of positioning systems. BROADGNSS receives co-financing from the EU Horizon 2020 programme.

Last Tuesday, 9 February 2021, was Safer Internet Day. Launched in 2004 and promoted by the EU-funded network of Safer Internet Centres in Member States, the day was celebrated online in more than 170 countries worldwide. The theme "Together for a better internet" is a call for everyone to join in making the internet a safer and better place, especially for children and young people.

The Commission has tasked the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, ENISA, to prepare the EU's cybersecurity certification scheme for 5G networks that will help address risks related to technical vulnerabilities of the networks and further enhance their cybersecurity. Certification plays a critical role in increasing trust and security in digital products and services – however, at the moment, there are various security certification schemes for IT products, including 5G networks, in Europe.

The Migration Whitepaper is intended as a strategical input for improving integration and shaping future migration policy of the EU. It focuses on ICT-enabled solutions, participatory design and co-creation of these solutions, and end-to-end collaboration between the various parties involved in migrant integration in European societies.

Guardia Civil (ES), the Ministry of Defence (GR), Centre for European Perspective (SI), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (CY) and International Organization for Migration (CH) are inviting interested bidders to participate in a webinar on 29 January 2021 to discuss the innovation potential for the upcoming CIVILnEXT pre-commercial procurement (PCP). The aim of the PCP is to develop, test and validate a cost-effective and interoperable operation control platform that improves the coordination in EU external civilian common security and defence policy missions.

Two cybersecurity pilot projects, CyberSec4Europe and CONCORDIA, have jointly organised a survey on the certification of MOOCs as part of an investigation regarding the future of MOOCs in cybersecurity and the value of a possible related certification.

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) launched a public consultation, which runs until 7 February 2021, on its draft of the candidate European Union Cybersecurity Certification Scheme on Cloud Services (EUCS). The scheme aims to further improve the Union’s internal market conditions for cloud services by enhancing and streamlining the services’ cybersecurity guarantees.

The Commission has published detailed information on what administrations, businesses and citizens have to do to prepare for Brexit.