The report puts forward a number of strategic and technical recommendations for Member States, the Commission and ENISA, to be implemented with the support of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications. As regards strategic aspects, the report recommends to:

• Assess resilience of international interconnections;
• Assess criticality, resilience and redundancy of core Internet infrastructure, such as submarine cables;
• Implement the recommendations related to suppliers in the second Progress Report on the EU Toolbox implementation;
• Create transparency on the landscape of suppliers and managed service provider or managed security service provider used for fixed networks, fibre technology, submarine cables, satellite networks and other important ICT suppliers;
• Involve the electronic communications sector in cyber exercises and operational collaboration;
• Foster information sharing and improve situational awareness about threats for operators;
• Provide funding support to operators for technical measures against cyber attacks in their networks;
• Exchange good practices among national authorities about physical attacks on digital infrastructure;
• Extend physical stress testing of critical infrastructure to include digital infrastructure.

This marked another major step in the coordinated work at EU level on the security of telecommunications, and complements the work already done on 5G cybersecurity.