European Parliament formally adopts EU Cyber Solidarity Act

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The European Parliament has formally adopted the EU Cyber Solidarity Act, which aims to bolster the EU's ability to detect, prepare for, and respond to cybersecurity threats and incidents. This follows the provisional deal agreed with the Council of the EU in March 2024. The proposal's key objectives include strengthening EU-wide detection and situational awareness of cyber threats, enhancing preparedness and response capabilities for significant cybersecurity incidents, and fostering EU technological sovereignty in cybersecurity. These objectives will be primarily achieved through a pan-European network of National Cyber Hubs and by establishing a Cyber Emergency Mechanism and a European Cybersecurity Incident Review Mechanism. MEPs also adopted a separate law on managed security services, introducing EU cybersecurity certification schemes for outsourced services that support an organisation's cybersecurity risk management. That law had also been informally agreed with the Council in March 2024. It comes in response to the increasing importance of managed security services in preventing and...