Reports and Studies about Cybersecurity

This brochure gives you a quick overview of the new EU Cybersecurity Strategy.

The public stakeholder consultation took place between 7 July and 2 October 2020. It was conducted to gather views on the topic of cybersecurity policy as well as on the different elements of the NIS Directive. The overall number of responses submitted was 206. The results of the consultation were used for the evaluation and impact assessment of the NIS Directive.

In 2019 the European Union funded four innovative projects to pilot the proposed legislation on a European cybersecurity competence centre and network of cybersecurity expertise. As the legislation edged ever closer to approval by the European Parliament, the four pilot projects, CyberSec4Europe, SPARTA, CONCORDIA and ECHO, organised for the first time a single online collaborative event, CONVERGENCE, from 9-11 December, that highlighted the joint progress made and brought together the most important personalities and organisations addressing cybersecurity in Europe.

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) published the Cloud Security for Healthcare Services report, which provides cybersecurity guidelines for healthcare organisations to help further digitalise with cloud services. Building on ENISA’s procurement guidelines for cybersecurity in hospitals, published early last year, this new report assesses the cybersecurity risks of cloud services and offers good practices for their secure integration into the European healthcare sector.

The Innovation & Networks Executive Agency (INEA) has published a new CEF Telecom brochure which presents an overview of the actions co-funded by CEF Telecom until the end of November 2020, including the status of each specific Digital Service Infrastructure (DSI) and a breakdown by country. Over the last seven years (2014-2020), 74 calls for proposals have been published awarding, so far, €308 million to 571 projects. The brochure also covers the WiFi4EU initiative which has distributed more than 8,800 vouchers between 2018 and 2020.

The Commission, with the support of EU Member States and ENISA, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, has published a report, which analyses the impacts of the Commission Recommendation of 26 March 2019 on the Cybersecurity of 5G networks and the progress made in implementing the EU toolbox of mitigating measures since the progress report of July 2020. Based on the findings of the Commission report, a set of concrete actions to continue the coordinated work at EU level on 5G cybersecurity are presented as part of the EU Cybersecurity Strategy for the Digital Decade.

The EU Cybersecurity Agency (ENISA) published a report presenting the Agency's active mapping of the AI cybersecurity ecosystem and its Threat Landscape, produced with the support of the Ad-Hoc Working Group on Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity.

The European Commission has created the European Cybersecurity Atlas, a digital knowledge management platform to map, categorise and stimulate collaboration between European cybersecurity experts in support of the EU Digital Strategy. The Atlas is a first of its kind and will be an important support to the forthcoming European cybersecurity competence centre.

Through the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) funding programme 2020 the European Commission (EC) seeks to fund projects, which aim at promoting the co-operation among cybersecurity certification stakeholders in the EU Member States. To assist the potential proposers the EC (DG Connect) organised this thematic webinar.

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.