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European Cybersecurity Strategy: Fostering the SME ecosystem

Cyberwatching.eu partner Digital SME Alliance, in collaboration with the European CyberSecurity Organisation (ECSO) has published a Position Paper on "European Cybersecurity Strategy: Fostering the SME ecosystem".

The position paper provides an overview of measures to facilitate SMEs’ cybersecurity ecosystem, and contribute to boosting the offer and the demand for SMEs’ cybersecurity solutions.

EU Commission plans new cyber security centre to certify security of technology products

European Commission vice-president Andrus Ansip is planning to set up a new cybersecurity centre to improve the competitiveness of European technological products on a global scale.
The new centre would certify the cybersecurity level of technology products, to strengthen EU member states' cyber security standards and capabilities, which according to Ansip are not yet ready to counter major cyber attacks.

Outcomes of First CIPSEC Workshop

On 15th June 2017, CIPSEC project has organized its first Workshop in Villanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, Spain. The workshop was focussed on analysing security and quality demands for the particular critical infrastructures scenario.

The workshop “Security vs Quality: A Dilemma for Critical Infrastructures Management”, has been collocated with the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS, http://iwqos2017.ieee-iwqos.org), a well-established conference in the QoS domain, in June 14, 2017.

Global Cybersecurity Index 2017 reveals that 50% of countries have no cybersecurity strategy in place

The UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has recently released the second version of its Global Cybersecurity Index which measures countries' commitment to cybersecurity and helps them to identify areas for improvement.

The Italian DPA issued its first guidelines on the GDPR

Scenario

On 28 April 28 the Italian Data Protection Authority (“Garante”) issued its first guidance on the new provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), consisting of a schematic overview of the changes in the current legal framework and recommendations on how to face them.

The Garante focused on six specific aspects:

Security Union: Commission accelerates measures to prevent radicalisation and the cyber threat

Today, the European Commission presents the 8th report on progress made towards an effective and genuine Security Union, calling for an acceleration of the ongoing work to enhance the security of EU citizens.

Knowing more on GDPR: video interview from Infosec 2017

Do you want to know more about the GDPR*?
Watch this live talk, streamed during the last Infosec event in London, where three experts in the field of cyber security & privacy give their perspective on GDPR compliance in reference to the European landscape.

Petya ransomware spreads across Europe

Major firms, airports and government departments in Ukraine have been struck by a massive cyber attack which began to spread across Europe. The virus is believed to be ransomware - a piece of malicious software that shuts down a computer system and then demands an extortionate sum of money to fix the problem. 

SECONDO plenary meeting

On 20/12/2019 the second plenary meeting of SECONDO occurred at the University of Piraeus. The partners were physically or remotely represented. The participants decided how they will proceed with the reference platform architecture and the use cases. Moreover, they decided the utilized candidate technologies.

SealedGRID Progress

SealedGRID researcher collaborate in order to finalize the Deliverable D5.1: “First version of the authorization component” . UPRC researchers implement the SealedGRID Authetication module that will verify the receives certificate. The utilized certificates are results of the SealedGRID Key management and are based on PGP and Web-Of-Trust. On the other hand, the BEIA researchers will implement the authorization module that will authorize the user to execute specific actions based on their privileges. UMA researchers lead this task.

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CERTIFY in 10th Startup OLÉ 2023 Event

Startup OLÉ 2023 will take place from the 4th – 7th of September, and has gather along its history +40.000 attendees from +120 countries; +1.500 startups, scaleups and spin offs; +1.200 speakers; +300 corporates and investors with investment portfolio of over €100kM. Our goal is to present the pr
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Terrorist Content Online (TCO): how to prevent it?

 

Terrorist Content Online (TCO): how to prevent it?

How terrorist organisations spread TCO and what can be done to stop it

Terrorists and violent extremists are increasingly trying to find new ways to exploit the internet. The growth of terrorist propaganda to recruit and inspire attacks is a risk to us all.

11/10/2023

Water Knowledge Europe - WKE 2023

Water Knowledge Europe

Networking and Brokerage Event

17-19 October 2023, BluePoint, Brussels

17/10/2023 to 19/10/2023
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