Geopolitics have shaped the cyber threat landscape, bringing like-minded partners closer together in the wake of common cyber challenges and advances in digital technologies.
Today at the EU-US Cyber Dialogue, ENISA and CISA announced the signing of their Working Arrangement as an important milestone in the overall cooperation between the United States and the European Union in the field of cybersecurity, also following the Joint Statement of European Commissioner Thierry Breton and U.S. Secretary for Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas of January 2023.
ENISA's International Strategy directs the Agency to be selective in engaging with international partners and to limit its overall approach in international cooperation to those areas and activities that will have high and measurable added value in achieving the Agency's strategic objectives.
CISA is a key partner to ENISA in achieving these objectives and by extension the EU in achieving a higher common level of cybersecurity.
The Working Arrangement is both a consolidation of present areas of cooperation, as well as opening the door to new ones.
Current examples are the organisation and promotion of the International Cybersecurity Challenge, exchanging best practices in the area of incident reporting or ad hoc information exchanges on basic cyber threats.
Together we will enhance cybersecurity awareness, fortify capacity building initiatives, and foster a robust environment for knowledge sharing and best practice exchanges, ensuring a safer digital landscape for our citizens.
The structured collaboration will address some of our common challenges in the cyber threat landscape.
This arrangement is broad in nature and covers both short-term structured cooperation actions, as well as paving the way for longer-term cooperation in cybersecurity policies and implementation approaches.
A work plan will operationalise the Working Arrangement and regular reporting at the EU-US Cyber Dialogues is foreseen.
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This Cyber News was published on www.enisa.europa.eu. Publication date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 23:13:05 +0000