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2024 Report on the State of the Cybersecurity in the Union

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

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

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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7 Steps to shore up the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

In this paper ENISA highlights the security vulnerabilities of BGP and explains why it is so important to address them. Working closely with experts from industry ENISA derived a shortlist of 7 basic BGP security measures which are industry good…

Challenges and opportunities for EU cybersecurity start-ups

Based on extensive analysis of the identified challenges and opportunities, as well as on feedback collected from a panel of experts, this report proposes a set of recommendations to start-ups and SMEs active in the NIS market.

ENISA CSIRT maturity assessment model

This is the updated version of the "Challenges for National CSIRTs in Europe in 2016: Study on CSIRT Maturity" published by ENISA in 2017. The study takes all relevant information sources into account, with a special emphasis on the NIS Directive,…

Cybersecurity Culture Guidelines: Behavioural Aspects of Cybersecurity

The present report is concerned with human aspects of cybersecurity including not only psychology and sociology, but also ethnography, anthropology, human biology, behavioural economics and any other subject that takes humans as its main focal point…

Cybersecurity Culture Guidelines: 'Technical Annex: Evidence Reviews'

This technical annex contains the four reviews that supported the writing of the report Review of “Behavioural Sciences Research in the Field of Cybersecurity”. The reviews are: 1. Measurement of cyber security attitudes and behaviours, 2.…

ENISA Maturity Evaluation Methodology for CSIRTs

This is the updated version of the "Study on CSIRT Maturity – Evaluation Process" published by ENISA in 2017. The new version (v.2) reflects values that are consistent with other documents and studies on CSIRT maturity.

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…

European Cybersecurity Month 2018 - Deployment Report

This report summarises the activities carried out by ENISA and the participating Member States for the European Cybersecurity Month 2018 and presents the evaluation and conclusions of the campaign. The ECSM campaign was successfully executed across…

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…

ICT security certification opportunities in the healthcare sector

The scope of this report covers functional requirements for a potential ICT security certification scheme for a widely understood healthcare sector.