New EU Cybersecurity Platform: The European Cybersecurity Atlas

The European Cybersecurity Atlas, a digital knowledge management platform created by the European Commission, will map, categorise and stimulate collaboration between European cybersecurity experts in support of the EU Digital Strategy. The Atlas is considered an important support to the forthcoming European cybersecurity competence centre. For more info see https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/european-cybersecurity-atlas

…and the new ECCC goes to: Bucharest!

On 9 December 2020, representatives of the governments of the EU member states selected Bucharest, Romania, as the seat of the new European Cybersecurity Industrial, Technology and Research Competence Centre. Proposals for the selection of the seat included beside Bucharest: Luxembourg, Leon (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), Vilnius (Lithuania), Munich (Germany), and Brussels (Belgium). Background: On 12 … Continued

Cybersecurity@CEPS SUMMIT 2020

Sandra was an invited speaker at this year’s Cybersecurity@CEPS SUMMIT “Policy Challenges for the EU Cybersecurity”. The online event focussed on the review of the NIS Directive and the need of cybersecurity requirements for ICT products. On 2 December, Sandra presented and discussed with fellow panellists Alessandro Zamboni (Partner and Head of Wavestone European Services), … Continued

IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management

Stefan is co-chair of the 15th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management. Due to the coronavirus spread, the Summer School was rescheduled, and will be held in conjunction with IFIP SEC 2020 in Maribor, Slovenia, on 20-23 September, 2020. In case that a physical conference is not feasible, the summer school will be … Continued

Paper Accepted at APF2020

Tracking without Traces—Fingerprinting in an Era of Individualism and Complexity Abstract. Fingerprinting is a ready-to-use technology that exploits the diversity and complexity of today’s personal computing devices. Since fingerprinting leaves little to no trace, Do Not Track (DNT) policies are hard to enforce. The upcoming ePrivacy Regulation must consider this technological reality. In this opinion paper, … Continued