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EU Auditors publish report on “Detecting and responding to cybersecurity incidents”
On Monday 21 September, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) will publish a special report on detecting and responding to cybersecurity incidents.
About the topic
Cybersecurity incidents can disrupt public services, businesses, critical infrastructure, and the EU’s internal market. Although responsibility for responding to these incidents lies mainly with the member states, the EU also plays an important role.
The EU cybersecurity landscape involves numerous public and private bodies at regional, national and EU level. Cybersecurity is also a key element of national security and defence.
The EU has increasingly been investing in strengthening cybersecurity. Under the 2021-2027 EU budget, the Digital Europe Programme is the main source of cybersecurity funding, with €1.4 billion allocated.
About the audit
The audit assessed whether EU actions effectively facilitate the detection of and response to significant and large-scale cybersecurity incidents. It covered the period from 2022 to 2025, and included audit missions to Ireland, Greece and Italy. The report and press release will be published on the ECA website (eca.europa.eu) on Monday 21 September at 17:00 (Luxembourg time). The ECA member responsible for this report is George-Marius Hyzler.
The ECA’s special reports set out the results of its audits of EU policies and programmes or management topics related to specific budgetary areas. The ECA selects and designs these audit tasks to be of maximum impact by considering the risks to performance or compliance, the level of income or spending involved, forthcoming developments and political and public interest.