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2024 Report on the State of the Cybersecurity in the Union

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This document marks the first report on the state of cybersecurity in the Union, adopted by ENISA in cooperation with the NIS Cooperation Group and the European Commission, in accordance with Article 18 of the Directive (EU) 2022/2555 (…

ENISA Threat Landscape 2024

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Seven prime cybersecurity threats were identified in 2024, with threats against availability topping the chart and followed by ransomware and threats against data, and the report provides a relevant deep-dive on each one of them by analysing…

Best Practices for Cyber Crisis Management

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This study highlights the complexities behind the notion of cyber crisis and the degree of subjectivity it involves. The elevation of a large-scale cyber incident into a cyber crisis relies predominantly on a political decision, and depends…

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Industry 4.0 - Cybersecurity Challenges and Recommendations

In this short paper ENISA provides identifies the main challenges to the adoption of the security measures and security of Industry 4.0 and Industrial IoT. Moreover, ENISA lists high-level recommendations to different stakeholder groups in order to…
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Towards a framework for policy development in cybersecurity - Security and privacy considerations in autonomous agents

One of the key aspects in autonomous systems is the data collected, mainly for supporting the demanding functionality in a qualitative and timely manner. The current study highlights a number of relevant security and privacy considerations, such as…
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ENISA’s PETs Maturity Assessment Repository

The present report aims at detailing the outcomes of the project that aimed to promote the ENISA’s PETs repository (and underlying PETs maturity assessment methodology) by 1) Engaging the privacy community into its use, and 2) Providing a plan for…
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Recommendations on shaping technology according to GDPR provisions - An overview on data pseudonymisation

The scope of this report is to explore the concept of pseudonymisation alongside different pseusonymisation techniques and their possible implementation. The report is part of ENISA's work in the area of privacy and data protection, which focuses on…
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Recommendations on shaping technology according to GDPR provisions - Exploring the notion of data protection by default

This report aims to shed some light on what the data-protection-by-default principle means in information technology design, what is the situation today, as well as how the new GDPR obligation could support controllers in selecting data-protection-…
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Reinforcing trust and security in the area of electronic communications and online services

This study provides an overview of well-established security practices, for the purpose of sketching the notion of “state-of-the-art” in a number of categories of measures, as they are listed in ENISA’s guidelines for SMEs on the security of…
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IoT Security Standards Gap Analysis

This study analyses the gaps and provides guidelines for, in particular, the development or repositioning of standards, facilitating the adoption of standards and governance of EU standardisation in the area of NIS.
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Towards global acceptance of eIDAS audits

The goal of the study is to explore the eIDAS Conformity Assessment Report (CAR), the corresponding audit requirements, gaps arising from comparison with competing audit schemes, and the emergent issues at the core of the global conversation between…
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Assessment of Standards related to eIDAS

In this report, ENISA presents aspects of QSCD certification and QTSP supervision to identify the way to combine respective elements therein, in line with the eIDAS requirements. In this context, this report seeks to support standards CEN EN 419 241…
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A tool on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) knowledge management and maturity assessment

This report accompanies the second release of the PETs assessment tool and provides a brief overview of its main functionalities, as well as its challenges and proposed dissemination activities for further enhancement and adoption.
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