On 11 November, the EU and Japan held their sixth Cyber Dialogue in Tokyo, which took place shortly after the announcement of the EU-Japan Security and Defence Partnership.

Senior cybersecurity officials from EU Member States and the Commission are today taking part in the yearly ‘Blueprint Operational Level Exercise’ (Blue OLEx) to test EU preparedness in the event of a cyber-related crisis.

The European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC) inaugurated its permanent premises in Bucharest, Romania this week.

The European Innovation Council (EIC), part of the EU research and innovation programme Horizon Europe, will support European deep tech research and high-potential start-ups with €1.4 billion next year.

This Regulation lays down the technical and the methodological requirements of the measures referred to in NIS2 with regard to DNS service providers, TLD name registries, cloud computing service providers, data centre service providers, content delivery network providers, managed service providers, managed security service providers, providers of online market places, of online search engines and of social networking services platforms, and trust service providers (the relevant entities).

The Commission has adopted the first implementing rules on cybersecurity of critical entities and networks under the Directive on measures for high common level of cybersecurity across the Union (NIS2 Directive).

On october 4th, the European Union and NATO staffs held the first Structured Dialogue on Cyber.

This year’s edition of the European Cybersecurity Month addresses the increasing trend of social engineering.

The European Commission has requested ENISA, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, to provide support for the certification of European Digital Identity Wallets.

The Commission is inviting experts on cybersecurity to submit their application to the Cyber Resilience Act Expert Group.