Reports and Studies about Cybersecurity

Monitoring the cybersecurity landscape and the increase of COVID-19 related cybercrimes reporting by cyber experts and law enforcement agencies worldwide, the ECHO network of cybersecurity centres (ECHO) has joined forces to establish its COVID-19 Cyber Defence Alliance. Its aim is to support all initiatives that aim at protecting the EU Member States, key services and critical infrastructure from cyber attacks.

The present working paper summarizes selected findings of the macro-economic simulations conducted as part of the study "Shaping the digital transformation in Europe", which assess the potential impact of disruptive digital technologies on the economy and society in the EU and its member states. The study is carried out by McKinsey & Company on behalf of the Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG Connect).

This "Project to policy kick off seminar" (P2PKOS) aimed to raise awareness at 2 levels. On the one hand projects funded under the Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 7 call needed to better understand the EU policy landscape in areas such as digital security, protection of critical infrastructure, border management, crime and terrorism or crisis management. On the other hand, EC policy officers working on various security related areas were interested to get a deeper knowledge of the security research project portfolio and how projects findings could impact and support their policy making work.

The NIS Cooperation Group, established by the Directive on security of network and information systems (the NIS Directive) meets regularly in plenary sessions. The agenda is proposed by the Chair of the Group and agreed on by all members. This page is regularly updated with the agendas of the previous meetings.

ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, publishes a Threat Landscape for 5G Networks, assessing the threats related to the fifth generation of mobile telecomunications networks (5G). This report complements the EU Member States report on EU-wide risk assessments on 5G security released in October 2019.

The European Commission has just published a report with key findings on how the EU cybersecurity rules under the NIS Directive are implemented in the crucial Energy sector, in particular in electricity, gas and oil areas.

This brochure gives you a quick overview of the EU's main cybersecurity policy and research activities.