Exploring Cloud Incidents
The use of cloud computing technologies is gaining increased popularity and quickly becoming the norm. At the same time, the cloud service providers (CSP) are not always able to keep up the pace with new technologies. This also affects forensic…
Qualified Website Authentication Certificates
This report proposes six strategies and twelve recommended actions as an escalated approach that targets the most important aspects detected to be critical for (i) improving the website authentication market in Europe and (ii) successfully…
Common practices of EU-level crisis management and applicability to the cyber crises
Despite a number of initiatives within the European Network and Information Security community to establish frameworks and standard operating procedures, the EU-level response to cyber incidents, and in particular these which lead to crisis…
Readiness Analysis for the Adoption and Evolution of Privacy Enhancing Technologies
This report aims at developing a methodology that allows to compare different Privacy Enhancing Tech-nologies (PETs) with regard to their maturity, i.e., their technology readiness and their quality concerning the provided privacy notion. The report…
Impact evaluation on the implementation of Article 13a incident reporting scheme within EU
As several years have passed since the publication and implementation of the Framework Directive 2009/140 including Art. 13a, an impact evaluation of the new article was necessary. The evaluation has the purpose of assessing the changes in outcome…
Security incidents indicators - measuring the impact of incidents affecting electronic communications
Measuring the impact of incidents has become one of the toughest challenges nowadays, given the multitude of factors/indicators that must be taken into consideration. To address this issue, indicators are used, accompanied by thresholds, to assess…
Big Data Security
The study aims at identifying the key security challenges that the companies are facing when implementing Big Data solutions, from infrastructures to analytics applications, and how those are mitigated. The analysis focuses on the use of Big Data by…
NIS Directive and national CSIRTs
This is an informative note on what provisions of the upcoming NIS Directive might mean for CSIRTs. It contains references to parts of the Directive, and some comments and proposals from our side. By no means we consider this document fix or final,…
Analysis of security measures deployed by e-communication providers
The aim of this document is to provide an overview of good practices as regards security measures that are deployed by electronic communication providers in Europe
Communication network interdependencies in smart grids
This study focuses on the evaluation of the interdependencies and communications between all the assets that make up the new power grids, their architectures and connections in order to determine their importance, threats, risks, mitigation factors…