This week ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, hosted two NIS Cooperation Group (CG) meetings in Athens and two knowledge-building days for experts working at competent authorities under the NIS (Security of Network and Information Systems) Directive.
The first group NIS Cooperation meeting, NIS CG Work Stream 5 is a working group of competent authorities for digital services under the NIS Directive, i.e. online marketplaces, online search engines, and cloud services. The second, NIS CG Work Stream 10 is a group of competent authorities for digital infrastructure under the NIS Directive, i.e. the internet exchanges, the domain name system, and the top-level domains.
During this joint session, ENISA organised a small exercise to discuss cooperation and collaboration, cross-sector and cross-border, because both groups of experts are dealing with operators and enterprises with digital infrastructure across the EU, often operating across borders. Different breakout groups reported a number of challenges, mainly on the alignment and communication between the national authorities supervising operators and providers across the EU. ENISA will follow up on the results of this exercise in the coming months, together with the groups.
ENISA also organised two knowledge-building days for experts working at competent authorities under the NIS Directive. At the start of the week, a network expert from RIPE NCC gave a seminar on internet infrastructure. At the end of the week, ENISA offered a full day seminar on cloud security.
Background
- This work is done under ENISA's Annual work program output O.2.2.2 "Supporting the NIS Cooperation Group".
- The publication of the NIS Cooperation group can be found on the European Commission's website.
- More information about the national authorities per sector, across the EU, can be found in the online NIS Directive tool.
Contact
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