EU cyber security agency ENISA turns 10 years old-- and celebrates the occasion with year-long international and local events taking a look at both the past and future of the "eternal marathon" against cyber criminals.
The agency started off on March 2004 with the adoption of the first ENISA regulation by the European Council and European Parliament.
"I am proud of what ENISA has achieved so far by successfully giving support to strengthen the cyber security capability in Europe through its prevention and preparedness activities," ENISA director Prof. Udo Helmrech says.
Achievements in the ENISA timeline include flashnotes with information on significant attacks, the organisation of the Cyber Europe 2010, Cyber Atlantic 2011 and Cyber Europe 2012 exercises, and the growth of governmental CERTs from 8 in 2005 to 25 in 2014.
The agency also sees growth in requests for advice from EU member states-- from 2 in 2010 to 14 (so far) in 2014.
Annually ENISA produces the Threat Landscape and major incident reports, as well asregular reports, guidelines and best practices on important issues such as cloud security, SCADA, e-ID, smartphones, social networks, data protection and cryptography.
"[European citizens and businesses] have the right to stay secure when they do so-- and they won't use what they can't trust," EU commissioner Neelie Kroes remarks. "Combined with strong EU legislation for network and information security, ENISA's work is helping us build that trust and security, to make Europe the world's safest online space."
