EU Vice President Neelie Kroes announced a comprehensive European strategy...
EU Vice President Neelie Kroes announced a comprehensive European strategy on cybersecurity. The strategy will introduced in the coming month, Kroes said Monday, together with European Commissioner of Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström and Cathy Ashton, high EU representative for foreign…
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affairs and security policy. The strategy will include policy and regulatory measures with the aim to reach a high level of information and network security. Despite existing efforts from the European Commission, which in March 2011 issued a communication on “critical information infrastructure protection: achievements and next steps: towards a global cyber security,” there is much more to do, Kroes told members of Parliament in a debate about a related parliamentary report. Rapporteur Ivaylo Kalfin, former Bulgaria minister of foreign affairs and now a member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Party Group, said Europe must speak with one voice on cybersecurity and include the issues of critical infrastructure protection also in bilateral trade agreements to expand cooperation. Cooperation with the U.S. is already very good, he said. One issue Kalfin mentioned was standardization of data and security breach information which had to be available for victims and the public. The plenary is expected to vote on the report Tuesday.