ENISA conducts a preliminary analysis of the IoT-related landscape of standards, which indicates that there is no significant gap in standards to bring secure IoT to the market. This does not mean that the security of= the IoT ecosystem as a whole has been addressed by means of standards....

For the fifth consecutive year, last October the European Cyber Security Month (ECSM) campaign was successfully executed across Europe. The campaign was coordinated and supported by ENISA, the European Commission, Europol's Cyber Crime Centre (EC3), European Banking Federation, the Estonian...

The concept of Cybersecurity Culture (CSC) refers to the knowledge, beliefs, perceptions, attitudes, assumptions, norms and values of people regarding cybersecurity and how they manifest themselves in people's behaviour with information technologies. CSC encompasses familiar topics including...

While online users increasingly rely on the use of mobile applications (apps) for their everyday activities and needs, the processing of personal data through such tools poses significant risks to users' security and privacy. Such risks stem mainly from the variety of data and sensors held in...

Quite often implementing European legislative initiatives relies on the availability of trustworthy information technology which means that the technology options used must be duly scrutinised and standardised prior to being put in good use. Over the last years, ENISA has engaged in a number of...

Cyber Europe 2016 was the fourth pan-European cyber crisis exercise organised by the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA). Over 1000 participants working mostly in the ICT sector, from public and private organisations from all 28 Member States of the European Union...

Cyber hygiene plays a critical role across the EU in protecting businesses, but it also provides the foundations for protecting the infrastructure and customer data which businesses rely on. This importance is recognised within the European Union to the extent that almost all the Member States...

Distributed ledger technology - commonly referred as Blockchain - has emerged as candidate for financial institutions to reform their businesses. The speed and cost of doing business using distributed ledger technology is expected to improve by simplifying back-office operations and lowering the...

The use of a mobile to effect payment for goods and services represents a paradigm shift towards digital only payments and has been driven by consumers who wish to make purchases at retail stores or to transfer funds using their mobile "digital wallet". For most consumers the ability to pay by...