Learning to live with the threat? Understanding Europe’s cyber defense approach

Political espionage, ransomware paralysing hospitals, surveillance software targeting civil society organisations – cyber threats are omnipresent. Annegret Bendiek and Jakob Bund are talking about increasingly sophisticated threats and the challenges of effective responses to cyber attacks.

**Guests: **

Dr. Annegret Bendiek is senior fellow at SWP. Her work focuses on the regulatory side of digital geopolitics, EU cyber diplomacy, security and defense policy.

Jakob Bund is an associate in SWP’s EU/europe research division. He works on the effects of cyber operations and state responses to cyber attacks.

Annegret Bendiek and Jakob Bund are part of a research consortium developing an interdisciplinary database for the study of cyber conflict - the European Repository of Cyber Incidents (EuRepoC). Bringing together researchers from Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the University of Heidelberg, the University of Innsbruck and the Cyber Policy Institute, the project combines an operational, political, and legal understanding of cyber threats and how states respond to them. The project is funded by the German Foreign Office and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Host: Esme Nicholson

Recommended Reading and Audio:

Annegret Bendiek, Jakob Bund Shifting Paradigms in Europe’s Approach to Cyber Defence Ambitions to Disrupt Malicious Cyber Activity Need to Protect Norms as Well as Networks SWP Comment 2023/C 48, 25.09.2023, 8 Pages

EuRepoC Cyber Conflict Briefing - July 2023

Dr. Annegret Bendiek Deutsche Cybersicherheit in Europa Öffentliche Anhörung „Cybersicherheit - Zuständigkeiten und Instrumente in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland“ am Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2023, 14:00 – 16:00 Uhr.

Annegret Bendiek Cybersicherheit: Wie die EU mit gezielten Sanktionen versucht, Cyberangriffe abzuwehren SWP-Podcast 2022/P 01, 03.01.2022