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🎥✨ Wrapping up 2024: a year full of achievements and collaborations! ✨🎥   As the year comes to a close, we would like to take a look back to the incredible activities and milestones we achieved in 2024. This year has been key to the power of collaboration, innovation, and unwavering support.   A heartfelt thank you to our Board of Directors for their constant guidance and dedication, and to all our members and partners, for your collaboration - your contributions made all the difference in making this year a success.   The EE-ISAC team wishes you happy holidays! May the new year bring even more success, joy, and opportunities 💫   #2024Recap #Collaboration #Innovation #ThreatIntelligence #Cybersecurity

📢 EE-ISAC contributing to a debate about the new cybersecurity legal regime in Portugal Aurelio Blanquet, EE-ISAC Secretary General, was honoured to participate at the conference “O novo regime jurídico da Cibersegurança em Portugal”, organized in Lisbon to discuss the impact of the new cybersecurity legal regime in Portugal, aligned with #NIS2 Directive. EE-ISAC was invited to discuss the challenges of sharing security information and organizations' concerns about legal protection, reputation and potential liabilities. Main takeaways: 👉 The world is connected, organizations are highly interdependent, and cybersecurity is not a game to play alone. 👉 A timely and efficient Information Sharing and responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities, events and incidents are essential pillars for cyber resilience beyond NIS2. 👉 Early warnings and a network of trust can play a relevant role in preventing cyber-events from evolving into relevant cybersecurity incidents that falls into the compliance obligations of formal reporting and coordination mechanisms as defined in the NIS2. 👉 Take advantage of the complementary cooperation networks of sectorial ISACs, CSIRT teams and competent national authorities to share information in a structured way and within a legal protection framework. 👉 Use secure platforms for exchanging information, such as EU-certified systems. Information Sharing is vital to raise the cyber awareness and take effective cybersecurity actions, and the EE-ISAC is the trusted community of cyber-energy representatives where trust between partners plays the decisive role that guarantee a fast, effective and responsible disclosure of sensitive cyber information. 👏 Congratulations to the organizers for this great conference and to João Annes as the event's curator for the excellent program, and our thanks for the invitation to contribute to the debate.

❗ Breaking news for the cybersecurity community: the Council approved conclusions recognizing European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) as a cornerstone of Europe's cybersecurity ecosystem. We’re excited to celebrate the recent milestone for one of our founding members, ENISA! This announcement underscores the agency's vital role in supporting EU member countries with new cybersecurity legislation. Through its strong collaboration with the European Commission, ENISA drives shared situational awareness and helps ensure that all stakeholders in the cybersecurity sector are aligned. 🔐 At EE-ISAC, we are proud of our partnership with ENISA and our progress together. We will continue working alongside the Agency to expand the sharing of system information and knowledge, contributing to important legislative initiatives like #NIS2 and #CRA. A huge thank you to ENISA for its continued dedication to building a secure and resilient cyberspace for all! You can find more info here: https://lnkd.in/d6QRcYau #cybersecurity #ENISA #infosharing #cyberspace

🤝 Learn more about Marcel, our new Honorary Member 🤝 We’re thrilled to welcome Marcel Kulicke to our association! His experience and dedication will further strengthen our mission.   “Cybersecurity was not much of a topic these days, but it gained traction in projects and ended up as my field of specialization and enabled a later switch into penetration testing, because who doesn’t like to break things?!”   Would you like to know more about his background and how his vision will contribute to our goals? We’ve prepared a special article on our website with all the details 📖 👉 https://lnkd.in/dTvS_jry

We are thrilled to announce that Marcel Kulicke stands from now on as an Honorary Member of the EE-ISAC!   Marcel has been a long-time collaborator with our association, working closely with us in the threat intelligence and MISP task forces for years. His dedication and invaluable contributions have had a lasting impact on our mission and initiatives. We are delighted that his commitment to our work will continue, strengthening our collaboration for years to come.   Welcome, Marcel, to your new role within the EE-ISAC, together we look forward to achieving even greater milestones!   #Partnership  #HonoraryMember #EE_ISAC #ThreatIntelligence #MISP

The CRA is a regulation, meaning it applies directly and uniformly without the need for transposition into national law, unlike the NIS2 directive. You might ask a very valid question: why wasn't NIS2 issued as a regulation? I've had numerous discussions with stakeholders on this topic, and the reasoning often centers on the need for flexibility and respect for sovereignty. However, this approach seems to be backfiring, as many member states are slow-walking the transposition process, and missing deadlines. It remains unclear to me what concrete penalties a state faces for failing to transpose a directive, beyond the occasional 'stern' warning by ENISA.

🎉 EE-ISAC & CIPRE | Our session at Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience Europe was a success! We’re incredibly grateful to have had such an engaging discussion on “How to fortify European Energy grids to face the current Cyberthreat scenario” moderated by EE-ISAC Secretary General Aurelio Blanquet Technology is not enough, process design is a must, training and skilling people is critical but cooperation & information sharing are KEY to successfully face the cyber threat challenge. 👉 Cybersecurity is not a game to play alone, and EE-ISAC is the trusted community of energy stakeholders creating a trustful environment for a trusted information sharing on cybersecurity incidents, vulnerabilities and knowledge. We counted with full audience and with a unique and diversified panel of speakers: Felipe C. (European Commission), Javier Simón (Iberdrola), Simon G. (Forescout Technologies Inc.), and Thomas Krauhausen (E.ON - Board Member of EE-ISAC). Unfortunately, we missed Annika Wägenbauer (Institute for Security and Safety GmbH at the UAS Mannheim) who was not able to attend due to health issues. We hope you a quick and full recovery, Annika! 💐 A heartfelt thank you to the CIPRE organizers for inviting our association to participate once again. It’s an honor to be part of such a forward-looking event!

Catching up with Aurelio Blanquet right before the EE-ISAC Power and #Energy (Grid #resilience) Sector Symposium at Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience Europe. How can we minimize outage and attack impacts and fortify Europe’s grids?

EE-ISAC & CIPRE 2024 | GET TO KNOW OUR SPEAKERS! We welcome one of our speakers for the EE-ISAC's session at Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience Europe! Felipe C., Policy Officer at the European Commission in the area of Energy Security and Safety, will provide knowledge on cybersecurity. 💡 Topic: The session will cover the most pressing cybersecurity topics our organization is currently addressing, focusing on emerging threats and the mitigation strategies we are implementing. Additionally, it will discuss the value of participating in the Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) and collaborating with the European Commission projects, highlighting how this threat intelligence collaboration strengthens our defenses, enhances decision-making, and enables the sharing of best practices across the sector to protect against sophisticated cyberattacks. 📖 About Felipe: he joined the European Commission first in the Internal Audit Services and then the Directorate-General of Energy, dealing with technology and cybersecurity topics. Currently he is working on cybersecurity legislation and digitalization in the energy sector. He holds a master degree in telecommunication engineering from the University of Valladolid (Spain) and a second Master in Business Administration by the University UNED (Spain). He worked 17 years in telecommunications in the private sector in Germany, France and Belgium. He is also affiliated professor in the Business School SKEMA in France. Follow along all EE-ISAC information to be up to date on cybersecurity threats! #Cybersecurity #CIPRE2024 #InformationSharing

EE-ISAC & CIPRE 2024 | GET TO KNOW OUR SPEAKERS! We’re thrilled to introduce one of our speakers for EE-ISAC's session at Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience Europe! Javier Simón, Head of the Network Management Center at Iberdrola, will engage in the EE-ISAC panel session on November 13 in Madrid. 💡 Topic: “Private Networks Contribution to Grid Resiliency”. Javier will cover Iberdrola's strategy in the deployment of telecommunicacion solutions based on opticap fiber, DWDM, MPLS and private radio (LTE, PtmP, PtP), complemented by third party solutions in order to provide the desired grid resiliency in terms of availability. 📖 About Javier: he holds an M.Sc. in Telecommunications from the Technical University of Madrid and an M.A. in Energy Company Management from Universidad Antonio de Nebrija. With over two decades at Iberdrola, he now leads as Head of the Network Management Center, overseeing the deployment, operation, and maintenance of a multi-technology network to support Iberdrola's telecommunications needs. Follow our social media to learn all the details about our session! #Cybersecurity #CIPRE2024 #InformationSharing