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The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Industrial Cyber Security Center of Excellence (ICSCoE) under the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA*), in collaboration with the European Commission (Directorate-General for Communications, Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT)), the government of the United States (Department of Homeland Security/ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS/CISA), Department of State (DOS) and Department of Energy (DOE), and Idaho National Laboratory (INL)) and hosted JP-US-EU Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Week (24-28 October 2022, Hybrid).

On 26 October, MITA will be launching the Maltese NCC at the cyber ROOT 2022 conference happening physically at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta, Malta.

The European Cyber Security Month (ECSM) is the EU’s annual cybersecurity awareness campaign that takes place each October across Europe. In order to celebrate the 10th year anniversary of the campaign, CONNECT University is organising a special session: Cyber Awareness and Resilience: the Ukraine Experience.

The call aims to improve the offer of digital education programmes and to increase the number of future digital experts. Potential beneficiaries are universities, excellence centres and businesses. Total budget amounts at €56M

The new report published by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) explores the necessity to design new cryptographic protocols and integrate post-quantum systems into existing protocols.

The webinar available online aims to highlight how ENISA is going to sustain the effort to build a cybersecurity workforce, through the European Cybersecurity Skills Framework (ECSF) and its application.

4th Governing Board meeting of the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre during the Luxembourg Cybersecurity week

The American National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched in 2017 a competition with the aim to select the future standards in cryptography, resistant to the computational capacity of upcoming quantum computers.

The event will be organised from 19 to 20 October 2022 by the Enterprise Europe Network of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce, in close collaboration with Security Made in Luxembourg and with the support of Mr. Pascal Steichen (Chair of the Governing Board, European Cybersecurity Competence Centre).

The Governing Board of the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre met on 19-20 October during the Luxembourg Cybersecurity week

ECSO, InnovationQuarter, TIIN Capital, KPN Ventures, Security Delta (HSD) and Women4Cyber announced the upcoming Cyber Investor Days event, a matchmaking opportunity launched by ECSO where cybersecurity investors meet top-level start-ups for a day in the spirit of innovative solutions and business opportunities.

On 16 November, the European cyber week will gather high-level speakers from EU institutions and representatives of European industry and regional authorities to discuss the status of play and the future developments of European cooperation on the synergies between space-defence-cyber industries, the internationalisation of the “Cybersecurity Made in Europe” label, and the new European cybersecurity policy framework.

ENISA is organising the 2nd Conference on Maritime Cybersecurity, which will be co-hosted by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) on 14 October. The Conference will be a full-day event and will take place at EMSA's Headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal.

The first of its kind certification mechanism, Europrivacy, to demonstrate compliance with the General data protection regulation, the well-known ‘GDPR’, marks a leap forward in ensuring the respect of the EU’s groundbreaking privacy protection rules.

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) launches the activities of the European Cybersecurity Month (ECSM) awareness campaign and announces the winners of three ECSM awards for best video, best infographics, and best teaching material.

October is the European Cyber Security Month and this year, we celebrate the tenth anniversary of this important campaign. For this occasion, Commission and ENISA VIPs prepared short video messages to encourage you to get involved. Watch them now!

On 30 September 2022, a workshop was organised for the National Coordination Centres (NCCs) to share and discuss best practices in preparing project proposals for the Digital Europe Programme (DEP) Call reserved to NCCs, implementing Financial Support to Third Parties, and perform ‘National Contact Point’-like functions for DEP Cybersecurity.

Under the umbrella of the European Cyber Security Month, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) join forces to organise a webinar about the latest phishing trends, tactics and work done to fight cybercrime.

To show the importance of security research, the European Commission created a factsheet on the impact of security research as well as some of the future challenges and current issues, such as market uptake of research outcomes.

The new new DIGITAL Europe Programme call in digital skills will fund Master’s and Bachelor’s programmes in digital technologies (including Cybersecurity!) and also interdisciplinary programmes combining traditional subjects with technology. Funding is available for consortia of universities, research centres and business and the objective is to train more ICT specialists and empower professionals in non-ICT sectors with digital skills.