Increasing the resilience of Europe’s telecommunication infrastructures through Incident Reporting

A recent ENISA report analyses how mandatory incident reporting schemes have improved resilience and security in the EU telecoms sector. Experiences from this scheme can also serve as a model for the implementation of the forthcoming NIS Directive in other sectors. The first mandatory, EU-wide incident reporting scheme, aimed at ensuring the security and integrity of EU telecommunication networks and services, turned out to be an unparalleled success. In a European Union which was highly diversified in terms of telecoms security measures, art. 13a of the Framework Directive 2009/140 (