Cybersecurity and cyber defence

George Christou

Chapter 27 in Handbook of European Union Governance, 2025, pp 383-399 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Since the EU published its first cybersecurity strategy in 2013, it has evolved rapidly into a purposeful agent in the cyber domain through variegated governance. Dual economic and security logics in the contemporary context have underpinned the EU's approach. Several revisions of its cybersecurity strategy in 2017 and 2020, particularly in the latter, included aspirations to establish resilience, technological sovereignty, and leadership, as well as building operational capacity to prevent, deter, and respond, and to advance the goal of a global and open cyberspace. This chapter charts the EU's journey as an agent in cyber governance and shows how cybersecurity has been shaped by recourse to soft and hard law. Cyber defence, characterized by intergovernmental coordination, shows how multiple crises and an increasingly contested world order have led to a more intensive transgovernmental mode and accelerated the EU's commitment to deepen and enhance its cyber defence policy prerogatives.

Keywords: Cybersecurity; Cyber defence; Resilience; Technological sovereignty; Governance; Regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803925172
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