This Wednesday, the European Union (EU) reached a consensus on strengthening cybersecurity to give its 27 countries greater resilience and capacity to respond to cyber threats.
The EU Council announced this in a statement There is now a “common position” among Member States to “strengthen EU solidarity and the EU’s ability to detect, prepare and respond to cyber threats and incidents”.
“The agreement reached today is another step towards improving our cyber resilience […]will enable every Member State to recover effectively from major cyber attacks and threats of this type,” said Spanish Minister for Digital Transformation José Luis Escrivá, quoted in the released note.
Spain has the rotating presidency of the EU Council until the end of December.
The main objectives of this legislation are to improve the detection and surveillance capabilities of cyber threats and to strengthen the resilience capabilities against cyber attacks by critical infrastructures in each EU country, namely hospitals and public services.
The 27 also want a joint strategy so that citizens and companies can use cyberspace safely.
Therefore, It is proposed to create a pan-European infrastructure responsible for cybersecurity in buildings, composed of organizations from different EU countries, which will use “state-of-the-art technology, such as artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics, to detect and provide timely alerts to relevant authorities about cyber threats and incidents.”
At the same time, the EU Cybersecurity Agency, on a proposal from the European Commission and national authorities, will work on reports to make public the main threats, at a frequency to be determined.
With this consensus in the EU Council, the next rotating presidency, the Belgian one, which starts in January, will begin negotiations to finalize the legislation.
Source: DN
