Paper Titles & Abstracts

Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), in particular the Internet, have been an increasingly important aspect of global social, political and economic life for two decades, and are the backbone of the global information society today. Their evolution and development has brought many benefits but also the threat of serious cyber attacks, demonstrated over the past few years through acts of cyber espionage and cyber crime within the virtual, networked ecosystem that we live. In this context, the European Union (EU) over the past ten years has been developing its policies towards cyber threats, even though this has often been quite fragmented and messy at times. Utilizing the concept of security as resilience this paper provides a theoretically informed assessment of the EU's system of governance for cyber security and the extent to which the EU is able to construct a comprehensive and resilient approach within the evolving ecosystem.