Today the European Parliament,
the EU Member States, the European Commission and the EU Agency for
cybersecurity (ENISA) organised an exercise to test the EU’s response to and
crisis plans for potential cybersecurity incidents affecting the EU elections.
The objective of the exercise,
which took place today in the European Parliament, was to test how effective EU
Member States and the EU’s response practices and crisis plans are and to
identify ways to prevent, detect and mitigate cybersecurity incidents that may
affect the upcoming EU elections. This exercise is part of the measures being
implemented by the European Union to ensure free and fair elections in May
2019.
Vice-President of the European Commission, for the Digital Single Market, Andrus Ansip, said:”We must protect our free and fair elections. This is the cornerstone of our democracy. To secure our democratic processes from manipulation or malicious cyber activities by private interests or third countries, the European Commission proposed in September 2018 a set of actions. Together with the EU Member States, and other EU Institutions we are implementing these actions. We also decided…
