It’s European Cybersecurity Month 2022, the tenth such year of raising cyber awareness around Europe. This year’s ECSM aims to reach professionals aged between 40 and 60, from all sectors of the economy, focusing especially on SMEs.
ECSM was launched by the Athens-based European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). Its Executive Director Juhan Lepassaar said: “The number of successful online attacks could be greatly reduced if more people knew how to detect and react. This is what the activities of the European Cybersecurity Month are all about. The new awards introduced this year will give more visibility and incentive to develop tools and campaigns to help EU citizens. It marks a further step in the ten-year development of the ECSM. Building a trusted and cyber secure Europe also means to help all businesses thrive in a secure digital environment.”
ENISA and the Anti-Phishing Working Group European Foundation (APWG.eu) are running a webinar tomorrow about the latest phishing trends, tactics and work done to fight cybercrime. It’s free to attend but you have to register beforehand, on this link.
Links
For UK cyber awareness visit the official National Cyber Security Centre’s Cyberaware site: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberaware/home.
ECSM awareness material: https://cybersecuritymonth.eu/resources
ECSM 2022 – Phishing: https://cybersecuritymonth.eu/phishing
ECSM 2022 – Ransomware: https://cybersecuritymonth.eu/ransomware
ECSM cybersecurity quiz: https://cybersecuritymonth.eu/quiz.
ENISA events
Meanwhile ENISA is organising the first Cybersecurity Market Analysis Conference, on November 23 and 24; a hybrid event, in Brussels and online, free to attend. And on October 14 ENISA is holding the second Conference on Maritime Cybersecurity, co-hosted with the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), in Lisbon, where EMSA is based. Among the speakers is Leendert Bal, the Dutchman who’s Head of Department Safety, Security and Surveillance, at EMSA. Jo Dalton, Associate Partner, Head of Europe at the Uk and US-based penetration testing and red teaming firm Pen Test Partners, is speaking on cyber hacking of ships.
More in the December print edition of Professional Security Magazine.
