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Through this report, ENISA aims to enhance stakeholder awareness, facilitate risk analysis in evolving threat landscapes, and bolster trustworthiness in remote identity proofing methods.
Increasing the confidence of European citizens and businesses in electronic transactions.
The eIDAS Regulation (Regulation (EC) 910/2014) enables the use of electronic identification and trust services by citizens, businesses and public administrations, to access online services or manage electronic transactions. The eIDAS Regulation is the EU wide legal framework meant to ensure the interoperability and security of the electronic trust services across the EU. One of the goals of the eIDAS is to ensure electronic transactions can have the same legal validity as traditional paper-based transactions, to create a framework in which a digital signature has the same value as a hand-written signature.
ENISA has been at the forefront of the eIDAS developments and has been supporting the Commission and Member States in the area of trust services since 2013. The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity issues technical guidance and recommendations on Electronic Identification and Trust Services helping Member States to implement the eIDAS regulation.
This support provided by ENISA in the area of trust services extends but is not limited to the following:
- security recommendations for the implementation of trust services;
- mapping technical and regulatory requirements;
- promoting the deployment of qualified trust services across Europe;
- raising awareness for relying parties and end-users.
The EU Cybersecurity Act of 2019 strengthened the Agency’s role is supporting the implementation of eIDAS with an extended mandate. ENISA has thus been empowered to support and assist the European Commission and the Member States in the area of electronic identification.
In June 2021, the European Commission released a new framework for EU digital identity by offering citizens and businesses digital wallets to retain documents such as national digital identities, licenses, diplomas and bank credentials securely in their smartphones. The wallet should also allow to log in to online services across the EU and to sign documents electronically.
ENISA also supports the European Competent Authorities for Trust Services (ECATS ) Expert Group
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