ANNOUNCEMENT: SecureHospitals.eu SCHOOL and CONFERENCE pages launched

The SecureHospitals.eu School aims to provide knowledge to IT professionals, cybersecurity trainers and management professionals in healthcare organisations on identifying threats and promoting cybersecurity as well as enabling knowledge exchange and discussion based on the expertise of the participants. The event will be held virtually on three…

We proudly present our first knowledge article

To raise awareness among decision makers and ICT practitioners in hospitals and care centers across Europe it is important to aggregate knowledge, which are easily available on our Online Awareness and Information Hub. Therefore, our consortium will regularly deliver knowledge articles during the lifetime of the project. Today we start with the…

Welcome to our Community of Practice!

The term “Community of Practice” was proposed in 1991 by Jean Lave and Étienne Wenger when they debated the aspect of learning in the context of social relations. In doing so, they showed that - in addition to structures or models - participation in a community is crucial for knowledge acquisition. Communities of practice offer a variety of…

The National Security Plan: Clarification and examples

By drawing up a National Security Plan (‘NSP’), a government indicates which objectives it wants to pursue in tackling problems that threaten their national security. This usually includes a list of the most important threat phenomena according to that government. Many NSPs cover issues such as terrorism, organised crime and cybersecurity. In…

ISO/IEC 27000 family

Official page of the ISO/IEC 27000 family The ISO/IEC 27000 family is a set of international security standards that provide a blueprint for an Information Security Management System that can be applied in practice by an organisation. Information Security Management System The notion ‘Information Security Management System’ (‘ISMS’)…

General Data Protection Regulation

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) The General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) regulates the main…

eIDAS Regulation

Regulation (EU) no. 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing Directive 1999/93/EC eIDAS Regulation stands for ‘electronic identification and trust services’. The purpose of the eIDAS Regulation is to…

EU Cybersecurity Act

Regulation 2019/881 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on ENISA (the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity) General The Cybersecurity Act encompasses two important things: a reinforcement of the mandate, responsibilities, powers and resources of the European Agency for Cybersecurity (‘ENISA’) and the creation of…