ENISA single programming document 2024-2026 : condensed work programme 2024

This year, The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) will be celebrating 20 years since its establishment in 2004. As it will celebrate its joint two-decade-long contributions in raising resilience and cybersecurity across the EU - together with Member States, EU partners and allies worldwide - ENISA also needs to acknowledge that cyber threats have continued to increase globally and the world itself has become much more unstable and unpredictable since its conception. The threat landscape has been severely impacted over the past 2 years by the Russian war of aggression and other geopolitical tensions via distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and ransomware attacks, a huge rise in information manipulation, and attacks against data to be used for extortion. The motivation of the aggressor continues to be either to destroy critical infrastructures and render them unavailable, thus impacting the target's resilience, or to dissuade and manipulate public opinion through misinformation and information manipulation. It is necessary to keep that in mind in 2024, which is an important juncture in the EU as its functioning is underpinned by free and fair elections.