The European Commission has signed an agreement with ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity for the operation and administration of the EU Cybersecurity Reserve.
The Commission will contribute €36 million from the Digital Europe Programme (DEP) to the functioning of this new initiative under the Cyber Solidarity Act to boost the cyber resilience of the EU and its Member States and – under certain conditions – third countries associated to DEP.
The EU Cybersecurity Reserve will support the response to and recovery from significant and large-scale cyber incidents. It will consist of incident response services from trusted service providers, that can be deployed to help address such cybersecurity incidents faced by EU Member States, EU institutions, bodies and agencies and where applicable, DEP-associated third countries. The reserve can be utilised for entities operating in critical and highly critical sectors under the NIS2 Directive such as the health or energy sectors.
Through this agreement, ENISA will spend the €36 million contribution over three years on incident response services, procuring services for the reserves via public procurement calls and assessing requests for services from the reserve.
Read more about the EU cybersecurity policies.
Source: European Commission | Shaping Europe’s digital future | News & Views (https://tinyurl.com/2spdkmak)