Handbook on cybersecurity : the common security and defence policy of the European Union The present handbook gives an overview of the state of affairs in European cybersecurity. It was edited and published by the Ministry of Defence of Austria during the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It is the fifth handbook in the series of CSDP publications an important step forward towards the creation of a common European security culture. In a global context where security is never just a matter of traditional defence and where the real world merges with the cyberworld cybersecurity is a collective responsibility. It calls on each and every one of us citizens of Europe to invest in the most powerful tool we have to exercise our sovereignty advance our interests and stand by our values: our European Union