Converting leads into opportunities in European Union

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cybersecurity is becoming more and more important the more we are digitalizing our life through the more email we send the more love we find on the Internet the more data well poutine and all these data are vulnerable to cyber attacks the EU can and should lead on cybersecurity but there is two things we should go for it the first thing is not to cooperate enough the you need to act as a single body and we need to protect our European sovereignty we should not let the Member States protect their own sovereignty because IBM today it will harm the European Union other second thing that we need to do is not to act alone if the European Union act alone without the international cooperation it will not work it will put our companies in economic disadvantage so Trust is really it's a bottom of thing it comes from people knowing each other talking to each other practicing together doing exercises together and I think the very simple answer that just needs to be more of that it does take an effort it takes time it takes people and it can distract you from doing things at home so at the end of the day you need more resourcing you actually need to have enough people to deal with your neighbors with other European countries to build these relations together I think the other thing you can do to build trust is to have a center so an agency European Commission that also engender trust now it's not enough just to say Europe needs to do more you also need to have a European Commission and agencies like Anissa and Lisa that get taken seriously that are well resourced that have appropriate mandates and a commission that also on the one hand pushes for more but has some empathy toward member states and works sort of on a very practical dynamic level to get things right with them digitalization is a day to day story for us and the cybersecurity is nothing without strong legislation in background we know that the election now very hot spot for the time everybody is speaking about the election of next year already what we think is compared to the national election there is no big difference in terms of risk except Sachs the exposure is not larger we because of course 27 countries will do the election over three or four days even so it's definitely change I think compared to the national elections we have to stop seeing cybersecurity as a sector but to see cybersecurity as an original activity affecting absolutely all sectors as we have seen in the past years the cybersecurity has moved quickly from an IT technical activity to an entire ecosystem because it can affect everyone from an individual user to company to an organization to vital sectors for the economy and society like transport energy healthcare banking - even countries and economies cybersecurity it's it's too easy for policymakers to think of this as a kind of difficult technical issue for the geeks to take care of somewhere and that's precisely why we haven't gone as far as we could because there hasn't been the political pressure to deliver so I think it's really important for the politicians to articulate goals and to get their services and their agencies to deliver and part of why the politicians have to get involved is because the people in government that have to be doing stuff are in their own different silos it's the people in certs it's the law enforcement people it's also foreign ministries you know it's a tribute sometimes it's not about a technical response it's about attributing a cyberattack and saying yes it was Russia that attacked us or it was North Korea that attacked us as opposed to just oh we had an attack and it was bad so it's about political courage as much as it's about practical nitty-gritty activities so this is I think it's really important that the politicians take this as seriously as the experts dealing with the topic