Cyberthreat – EU v Ecrime

The latest government Strategic Defence and Security Review for the first time identified cyber attacks as a major threat to the UK. As individual European states develop their defence strategies the European Union too is finally looking at an integrated response. Keith Nuthall reports.

It may come as a surprise, given the acres of newsprint and terabytes of data devoted to cybercrime over the past decade, that the European Union (EU) still lacks a dedicated and centralised centre for fighting Internet crime.