National Cybersecurity Approaches in the European Union: The Case of the UK

Abstract

The European Union (EU) has accelerated the development of its cybersecurity strategy since February 2013, which has inevitably also brought under greater scrutiny the variation in cybersecurity resilience and preparedness across the EU member states. Just as with the EU context that will be analysed in the chapters that follow, national levels of preparedness across Europe are perhaps the most important dimension of the cybersecurity ecosystem that if not improved to at least meet minimum standards could impact negatively on the ambition of achieving an effective EU cybersecurity strategy. Indeed the EUCSS was constructed to facilitate the security of cyber resilience in EU member states, in the recognition that it was national governments that could primarily drive the process of improvement and transformation in the cybersecurity ecosystem within Europe.