Briefing Packages
The CANVAS Briefing Packages are a set of summarized, easily digestible information on challenges as well as possible, value-driven solution approaches linked to European cybersecurity policy. Addressing mainly (but not exclusively) EU and national policy makers, they provide guidance for decisions in this area.
Four different Briefing Packages are available further below, each of them addressing a different challenge in the field of European cybersecurity policy. These challenges are:
- Achieving Trust in EU Cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity and the European Data Protection Framework
- All Fundamental Rights are relevant for Cybersecurity
- Achieving Comprehensive and Consistent EU Cybersecurity Policies
Each Briefing Package is downloadable either completely or partially and free to use in English, French and German (the final version in German and French will be available soon).
The core content of each briefing Package consists of a Policy Brief and of a Slidedocs presentation file. Furthermore, informative case studies and commented literature lists are available. While the commented literature lists have been incorporated in each complete Briefing Package download, they are also available as stand-alone document here.
The case studies have been incorporated in the Reference Curriculum, which can be found on this website here.
All Briefing Packages
Download all four briefing packages in English, German and French
Briefing Package 1
Achieving Trust in EU Cybersecurity
This challenge addresses the question how important online trust is for cybersecurity and in which way it can be achieved. Therein, it is explained how ‘trust’ can be understood and why it has ethical, social, as well as economic value in the context of cybersecurity policy.
Briefing Package 2
Cybersecurity and the European Data Protection Framework
There are several areas of conflict between the European data protection framework and cybersecurity regulations. In this Briefing Package, it is explained what the core issues are, why the privacy vs. security trade-off view is misleading, and how policy makers can resolve conflicts and reinforce positive synergies between those two fields.
Briefing Package 3
All Fundamental Rights are relevant for Cybersecurity
Despite often perceived as such, cybersecurity policies impact not only on the right to the protection of personal data and the right to respect privacy. Rather, potentially negative effects on a wider range of fundamental rights of European citizens, e.g. by the securitization of EU values/interests and the increasing permissibility of surveillance especially in the digital environment need to be understood. Thereby, initial ideas how to achieve such an understanding are provided.
Briefing Package 4
Achieving Comprehensive and Consistent EU Cybersecurity Policies
Another challenge in the cybersecurity domain is that inconsistencies in EU cybersecurity policy, uncertainty regarding regulatory competences, and lack of cooperation that leads to overlapping and conflicting obligations of relevant stakeholders. Potentially suitable countermeasures to this challenge are explored in this Briefing Package.
Commented literature lists
The commented literature lists are a vast, cybersecurity focused collection of resources e.g. from academia, case law, and policy/legislation. It was built up during the research work of the CANVAS consortium and is now provided here for the public to use freely.
Download the complete literature lists here:
Download Literature List (PDF)
The corresponding full White Papers themselves are also accessible on this website here.