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Training day “Cybersecurity Awareness Seminar for European Commission Services and EEAS”

The EU plays an important role as a pathfinder and a role model in building safe digital societies and as a leader on international norms and standards in cyberspace that works with partners around the world to promote a global, open, stable and secure cyberspace, grounded in the rule of law, human rights, fundamental freedoms and democratic values.

Background

The rapid digital development and increase of malicious activities in cyberspace by both State and non-state actors, including in the context of the war against Ukraine, has further underlined that cybersecurity can no longer be seen exclusively as a technical issue. Instead, cyber has become an integral part of EU’s foreign and security policy and the EU’s digital agenda. The increased level of connectivity has led to a surge in malicious cyber activities, including cybercrime. Technology is being misused for adverse political and economic objectives, affecting the foundation of our society.

This has required the EU and Member States to strengthen its policies and instruments and to step up its cooperation at multilateral, regional and bilateral level, as well as with the multi-stakeholder community. Building on the 2020 EU Cybersecurity Strategy and the Strategic Compass, the EU has further advanced its full-spectrum approach to resilience, response, conflict prevention, cooperation and stability in cyberspace.

The EU plays an important role as a pathfinder and a role model in building safe digital societies and as a leader on international norms and standards in cyberspace that works with partners around the world to promote a global, open, stable and secure cyberspace, grounded in the rule of law, human rights, fundamental freedoms and democratic values. This role can only be successfully fulfilled if EU officials – from different backgrounds and with different responsibilities – are aware of the EU’s role across the cybersecurity landscape and are equipped to mainstream cyber aspects into their respective work.

Objectives

The Cyber Security Awareness seminar will allow participants to:

  • Be familiar with the general framework of digital transformation, key stakeholders, trends and challenges;
  • Raise awareness on threat landscape and challenges to securing cyberspace in context of emerging technologies;
  • Understand the importance of building resilience, preventing, deterring and responding to cyber threats and malicious cyber activities;
  • Learn the value of national cyber crisis management plans, national cybersecurity strategies, and international collaboration as well as diplomatic action;
  • Acknowledge the tools and pitfalls in fighting against cybercrime from national and global perspective, incl. the main regulatory instruments;
  • Have the knowledge to improve personal cyber hygiene and get insights to the operational challenges in ensuring institutional and national cyber security;
  • Understand the Policy and Legal Frameworks for a safer cyberspace, incl. the OEWG discussions on cyber norms, Internet Governance and its relation to cyber diplomacy;
  • Be informed about the services and resources the EU CyberNet has to offer in accomplishing cyber capacity building missions.