Cyber security agency, ENISA and the European Commission have published their first annual report on cyber security incidents, containing an analysis of incidents in 2011. Incidents affecting mobile telephony or mobile internet affected most users, which is consistent with the high number of mobile users.
All 11 EU member states submitted data on incidents from over 2011, reporting 51 severe outages of electronic communication networks or services.
Natural phenomena including storms, floods and heavy snow have a big impact on the power supply of providers. Natural phenomena cause long lasting incidents, around 45 hours on average.
Under Article 13a of the EU’s telecom reform directive (Directive 2009/140/EC), EU Member States are required to make summary reports on major outages once a year to ENISA and the European Commission.
Executive director of ENISA, Professor Udo Helmbrecht comments: “We are now, for the first time, equipped with an overview of major cyber incidents in Europe. This is a decisive moment for the EU’s efforts to improve understanding of the impact of cyber security incidents. But this still deals with only a small subset of cyber security incidents. This type of reporting should be extended to cover a wider range of incidents and more sectors.”
The next annual report will be published in the spring of 2013. ENISA representative Marnix Dekker and Christoffer Karsberg added: “This year, the Member States have more mature national incident reporting schemes. So next year we expect to publish an annual report with about 10 times more incidents.”
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