Kiberbiztonsági kompetencia hálózatok Európában – K+F+I lehetőségek a következő évtizedben
Authors: Krasznay Csaba 
Published: February 2021

Összefoglalás. Az elektronikusan tárolt információ biztonsága,
általánosabban véve a kiberbiztonság, az egyik legnagyobb kihívás a 21. században.
Folyamatosan jelennek meg újabb és újabb fenyegetések, melyekre innovatív és újszerű
megoldásokat kell adni. Ezek az innovatív megoldások mindenképpen magukkal hozzák az
olyan új típusú technológiák használatát az információbiztonságban, mint például a
Nagy Adatokból (Big Data) való építkezés és az erre épülő mesterséges intelligencia.
Ennek támogatása érdekében az Európai Unió a 2021 és 2027 közötti időszakban kiemelt
fontosságúnak tartja a kiberbiztonsági innovációkat. A tanulmány bemutatja a
kiberbiztonsági kompetenciahálózatok tervezetét, illetve ismerteti, hogy milyen
kutatás-fejlesztés-innovációs lehetőségek lesznek a következő évtizedben
Európában.

Summary. Security of stored digital information and more generally,
cybersecurity is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. Besides the
negative effects of cybercrime, cyberespionage, or other state sponsored activities,
like cyberwarfare, our society and economy should face the exposure of
infocommunication systems all around us. At the dawn of 4th industrial revolution
when the whole world is going to be digitalized and will be surrounded by networked
digital devices in homes, cities and industry, new threats are constantly emerging
that need to be responded with new innovative solutions. These innovative solutions
should include the usage of big data and artificial intelligence built onto it. They
should also give a response for the inherited risks of legacy systems that can be
found in many critical information infrastructures. Meanwhile, they should protect
the digital privacy of citizens by not giving out unnecessary user data which is
contradictory with the need of big data and AI mentioned before.

Due to the emerging cybersecurity threats and the virtually non-existence of European
cybersecurity market, European Union gives high importance for cybersecurity
innovation and will support it between 2021 and 2027. In the proposed budget for this
period, approximately 3 billion of euros is expected to be spent to cybersecurity
related research. On the one hand, that fund may help European research institutes,
enterprises, and startups to appear on the global market, on the other hand this is
the only possible way to regain Europe’s digital independence from the United States
and China. In alignment with the European security policy, these innovative solutions
may also lead to reducing the amount of cybercrime, ensure the resilience of
continental critical information infrastructure and can help to establish strong
European cyberwarfare capabilities. As Ursula von der Leyden, president of the
European Commission said in her op-ed in February 2020, “The point is that Europe’s
digital transition must protect and empower citizens, businesses and society as a
whole. It has to deliver for people so that they feel the benefits of technology in
their lives. To make this happen, Europe needs to have its own digital capacities –
be it quantum computing, 5G, cybersecurity or artificial intelligence (AI). These are
some of the technologies we have identified as areas for strategic investment, for
which EU funding can draw in national and private sector funds.” The study presents
the draft of cybersecurity competence networks and describes what R&D&I
possibilities will be in Europe in the next decade.