• Posted 27-Jul-2020

Cybersecurity: Commission report details policies and skills needed for a more secure digital society

The Joint Research Centre (JRC), the Commission's science and knowledge hub, has issued a report on ‘Cybersecurity - our Digital anchor. A European perspective'. It looks at the growth of cybersecurity over the last 40 years and identifies where the EU could improve in this field, for the benefit of businesses and citizens.

The authors of the report recommend policies to help foster the right culture and equip people with the right knowledge and digital skills to continue building a strong, secure and innovative digital society in Europe.

Digital technologies allow us to do things that were unthinkable just 10 years ago and they give us access to an enormous amount of knowledge. But the more our world goes digital, the more we are vulnerable to cyber attacks.

The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated this digitalisation, with a sudden and large-scale move to teleworking, the use of digital services in hospitals, laboratories and government services, and the explosion in online schooling.

‘Cybersecurity: our digital anchor’ connects the dots to analyse cybersecurity as a societal challenge for Europe – a challenge in which everybody should be actively and continuously engaged.

It brings together knowledge from across technological, economic and social disciplines and argues for a coherent, cross-sectoral and cross-societal cybersecurity strategy which can be implemented across all layers of European society.

Source: JRC EU Science Hub News (https://bit.ly/39wuAut)