New Cyber Blueprint to Scale Up the EU Cybersecurity Crisis Management

EU Member States adopted today the Council Recommendation for an EU Blueprint on cyber crisis management to strengthen the response to large scale incidents and crisis in the EU. The necessity for a revised cyber crisis management Blueprint was driven by the evolution of the cybersecurity threat landscape where geopolitics accelerated the need for stronger cyber crisis management as anticipated in an ENISA report and as outlined in the EU’s first ever report on the State of Cybersecurity in the Union. Subsequently, if we want to effectively prepare and respond to cyber crises of much higher complexity than ever before, cybersecurity crisis management processes need to take all such new parameters into account. The situation therefore called for a review of processes already in place and for new mechanisms to be adopted in order to strengthen the Union capacities in cyber crises management. The Commission presented a proposal on 24 February 2025 to ensure an effective and efficient response to large-scale cyber incidents. The EU Member States in record speed adopted the Council Recommendation for an EU Blueprint on cyber crisis management during the Formal meeting of the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council. Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, said: “I welcome today’s adoption of the Cyber Blueprint. In crisis situations, there is no room for improvisation, especially in today’s rapidly evolving and uncertain...