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Eurosmart welcomes proposal to boost EU
cybersecurity industry
urosmart, located in
Brussels and the voice
of the digital security
industry, welcomes the European
Commission’s proposal for a
regulation establishing the European
Cybersecurity Industrial, Technology
and Research Competence centre
and the Network of National
Coordination Centres. The proposal,
based on a cooperation model,
aims at stimulating the European
cybersecurity technological and
industrial ecosystem. The digital
security industry supports the idea
of the creation of an implementation
body for both the proposed Digital
Europe Programme and the Horizon
Europe Programme. As stated by
the proposal for a regulation, in
order to ramp up the EU’s cyber-
resilience, efforts must be made to
bring together the industry and the
research in the field of cybersecurity.
Eurosmart is proud to contribute
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to both factors and to be a part of the
660 cybersecurity expertise centres on
which the proposal is built on. communities in the field of
cybersecurity,” said Stéfane Mouille,
Eurosmart President.
“Eurosmart, as a founding member of the
European Cybersecurity Organisation
(ECSO), has been contributing to the
very first European initiative, bringing
together the research, SMEs, industry,
European regions and public-sector Through this new proposal, the
European Commission intends
to enhance this public-private
partnership and to put Europe in a
‘position to autonomously secure its
digital assets’.
STUDY REVEALS VIEWS ON CYBERSECURITY LITERACY OF
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
companies to grant them access to
encrypted user data.
“Over the last several months, we’ve
seen government officials from
across the globe propose dangerous
surveillance laws and protocols,”
said Jeff Hudson, CEO of Venafi. “For
example, the Five Eyes international
alliance has been consistently pushing
for mandated encryption backdoors into
private technology devices.
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enafi, a leading provider of
machine identity protection,
has announced the results of a
survey of 515 IT security professionals’
views on the cybersecurity literacy
of government officials. The survey
was conducted earlier this year at the
www.intelligentciso.com
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Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
According to the survey, 88% of
respondents believe all government
officials should be required to complete
a basic cybersecurity training course.
In addition, 66% believe governments
should not be able to force technology
“They don’t seem to realise that the
same encryption technology that
creates barriers for law enforcement
is also used to protect all types of
classified intelligence and other highly
sensitive government data. A backdoor
sounds great until a malicious actor gets
the key, which they always do.” u
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