Your attendance to Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience Europe will ensure you are up-to-date on the latest issues, policies and challenges facing the security of Europe’s critical national infrastructure (CNI).
You will also gain an insight in to what the future holds for Europe’s, the collaboration and support between member nations required to ensure CNI is protected from future threats and how to better plan, coordinate and manage a disaster.
– Build valuable networks with senior decision-makers, government representatives, regulators, critical infrastructure operators, and resilience professionals from across Europe.
– Gain practical insights from real-world case studies, lessons learned, and best practice approaches to strengthening critical infrastructure resilience.
– Stay ahead of emerging threats by understanding the latest developments in cyber security, physical security, hybrid threats, climate resilience, and emergency preparedness.
– Learn from cross-sector expertise, exploring how different critical infrastructure sectors address shared challenges and adapt successful strategies.
– Understand interdependencies between energy, transport, telecommunications, water, healthcare, finance, defence, and government systems, helping organisations improve whole-system resilience.
– Explore current policy and regulatory developments affecting critical infrastructure protection and resilience across Europe.
– Participate in interactive workshops and discussions that provide practical tools, frameworks, and approaches for improving organisational preparedness.
– Exchange knowledge with peers facing similar operational, security, and resilience challenges, encouraging collaboration beyond the conference.
– Develop strategic partnerships that support future collaboration, information sharing, and coordinated resilience planning.
– Enhance organisational resilience by discovering innovative technologies, methodologies, and solutions from industry leaders and solution providers.
– Gain a broader strategic perspective on managing cascading risks, systemic vulnerabilities, and cross-border incidents affecting critical infrastructure.
– Improve incident preparedness and response by learning how organisations coordinate during complex emergencies involving multiple sectors and stakeholders.
– Discover innovative resilience solutions through the showcase exhibition, demonstrations, and discussions with technology providers and subject matter experts.
– Strengthen professional development by engaging with leading experts and expanding knowledge across multiple resilience disciplines.
– Return with actionable ideas that can be applied to improve business continuity, crisis management, risk management, and critical infrastructure protection programmes.
– Benefit from a uniquely pan-European perspective, understanding how countries are addressing common resilience challenges while sharing experiences and best practices.
– Access high-level strategic content covering resilience policy, infrastructure protection, cybersecurity, emergency management, supply chain resilience, and public-private collaboration in one event.
– Contribute to shaping future resilience strategies through dialogue with policymakers, infrastructure operators, academia, and industry experts.
Learn about what you need to do to implement the NIS2 Directive…
An important discussion will centre around the EU cybersecurity NIS2 Directive that came into force in 2023. It modernised the existing legal framework to keep up with increased digitisation and an evolving cybersecurity threat landscape. By expanding the scope of the cybersecurity rules to new sectors and entities, it further improves the resilience and incident response capacities of public and private entities, competent authorities and the EU as a whole.
Businesses identified by the Member States as operators of essential services in the above sectors will have to take appropriate security measures and notify relevant national authorities of serious incidents. Key digital service providers, such as search engines, cloud computing services and online marketplaces, will have to comply with the security and notification requirements under the Directive.
Learn about what you need to do to implement the new directive on the Resilience of Critical Entities...
The Directive on the Resilience of Critical Entities entered into force and aims to strengthen the resilience of critical entities against a range of threats, including natural hazards, terrorist attacks, insider threats, or sabotage, as well as public health emergencies. Under the new rules:
- Member States will need to adopt a national strategy and carry out regular risk assessments to identify entities that are considered critical or vital for the society and the economy.
- In turn, the critical entities will need to carry out risk assessments of their own and take technical, security and organisational measures to enhance their resilience and notify incidents.
- Critical entities in the EU providing essential services in six or more Member States, will benefit from extra advice on how best to meet their obligations to assess risks and take resilience-enhancing measures.
- Member States will need to provide support to critical entities in enhancing their resilience. The Commission will provide complementary support to Member States and critical entities, by developing a Union-level overview of cross-border and cross-sectoral risks, best practices, guidance material, methodologies, cross-border training activities and exercises to test the resilience of critical entities, among others.