Today, Symantec, the world’s leading software security company, will advise the UK Parliament on the EU’s policy on protecting European governments from large scale cyber attacks against critical infrastructure. <\/p>\n
Ilias Chantzos, Symantec’s director of government relations for Europe and Asia Pacific, will appear before a House of Lords committee at 10.30am on Wednesday 9th December to answer peers’ questions on whether European governments are right to fear cyber-attacks and how they can work together to mitigate the risks they pose. <\/p>\n
As up to 90 percent of the critical infrastructure on which Europe depends is privately owned and crosses international boundaries, Symantec will counsel that only a co-operative between public and private sectors and Member States can secure the EU from malicious attacks and high impact, low probability -Black Swan events. <\/p>\n
Symantec’s evidence will cover: –<\/p>\n
How vulnerable the internet is to widespread technical failures and how it will be affected by natural disasters <\/p>\n
Whether regulatory intervention is unavoidable to ensure the resilience and stability of the internet, and what this will cost the Internet industry <\/p>\n
How concerned we should be about criminally operated -botnets and can the problem be tackled at a European level <\/p>\n
Should the military be more involved in ptotecting the internet <\/p>\n
Is the European Commission right to encourage public-private partnerships as a means of protecting critical infrastructure <\/p>\n
Does ‘market failure’ mean that Europe is inadequately prepared for high impact Black Swan events? <\/p>\n
Should Europe be developing its own approach or following the lead of the US? <\/p>\n
Is the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) the right body to develop national Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs)within EU member states <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today, Symantec, the world’s leading software security company, will advise the UK Parliament on the EU’s policy on protecting European governments from large scale cyber attacks against critical infrastructure. <\/p>\n