| Title | Europe’s Cybersecurity Threat Assessment | |
| Date | Friday October 31 2014, @10:48AM | |
| Author | LaminatorX | |
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| from the unplugging-the-rack-so-you-can-vaccuum dept. | ||
Forget cyber-espionage, cyber-warfare and cyber-terrorism. The biggest threat to Europe’s infrastructure cybersecurity are power outages and poor communication.
On Thursday, ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) held its biggest ever cybersecurity exercise involving more than 200 organisations and 400 cyber-security professionals from 29 European countries.
The bi-annual event simulates a lifelike attack, modelled on real events, to test the reaction of national Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTS), government ministries, telco companies, energy companies, financial institutions and internet service providers.
But Steve Purser, Head of Operations at ENISA explained: “The biggest threats we really see are not attacks, but hardware and software failures.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/30/the_threats_to_europes_cybersecurity_arent_what_you_think_they_are/
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