Small and Medium-sized enterprises are facing major cybersecurity challenges. The COVID-19 crisis showed how important the Internet and computers, in general, are for SMEs. During the pandemic and in a time of increased remote work and growing cyber threats, low-security budget and lack of cyber-skills can seriously impact their competitiveness. To support SMEs, European Union […]
Combatting Ransomware. A Comprehensive Framework for Action: Key Recommendations from the Ransomware Task Force. Ransomware attacks present an urgent national security risk around the world. This evolving form of cybercrime, through which criminals remotely compromise computer systems and demand a ransom in return for restoring and/or not exposing data, is economically destructive and leads to dangerous […]
Driving the Global Ecosystem of Incident Response Capabilities: New Studies Now Available. The 12th meeting of the CSIRTs Network, held earlier this week, was the opportunity for the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity to introduce the following two new guides dedicated to improving the work of incident response teams: How to set up CSIRT and […]
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has published the 8th annual report summarising the main cyber threats encountered between 2019 and 2020. Discover the top cyber threats ENISA is the Union’s agency dedicated to achieving a high common level of cybersecurity across Europe. ENISA contributes to EU cyber policy, enhances the trustworthiness of ICT […]
The European Union is strengthening its cybersecurity rules in order to tackle the increasing threat posed by cyber-attacks as well as to take advantage of the opportunities of the new digital age. On 9 April 2019, the Council adopted a regulation called the Cybersecurity Act which introduces: a system of EU-wide certification schemesan EU cybersecurity […]
DIGITAL SME partners with some of the strongest European players in cybersecurity in the new EU-funded PUZZLE project. Selected as one of the most innovative new approaches in cybersecurity by the European Commission, PUZZLE aims to strengthen cyber-safety by focusing on post-threat mitigation, filling an important security gap for many SMEs and citizens. Cybersecurity is […]
