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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Euro Security Initiatives Proposed

The European Commission today issued a report that calls for greater education on IT security, and the creation of a common framework for collecting incident data.  The commission calls for a cross-border effort to educate users about security and to unify disjointed national efforts to track exploits.  The EC also proposes to benchmark security-related policies and practices among its member nations, “to help identify the most effective practices so they can be deployed wherever possible on a broader basis throughout the EU.”

The report calls for the EC’s European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) “to study the feasibility of a European information sharing and alert system to facilitate effective responses to existing and emerging threats to electronic networks.”  Such a system would require the creation of a multilingual EU portal to provide detailed information on threats, risks, and alerts, the commission said.

Another proposal calls for businesses, users and government agencies to hold a “multi-stakeholder debate” on the balance between security and privacy, including the implications of RFID technology on end user privacy.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=96086&WT.svl=news2_3

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