Europe's IT security agency plans to double its staff
asgovernments step up their efforts against computer
crime.
The
European Network and Information Security Agency (Enisa) aims
to expand its collection of data on security threats and incidents
to give policy and law makers better basic data on which to act,
and to help improve software reliability.
The move follows concerns from governments in the wake of
distributed denial of service attacks that shut down Estonia's
national communications grid in April.
Andrea Pirotti, Enisa's executive director, told Computer Weekly
he is about to call for tenders for a study to establish the costs
and benefits of increasing the Crete-based centre of expertise's
staff from 44 to 100.
The expansion will help Enisa support projects to improve
network resilience, risk analysis and management, and cooperation
between EU member states.
Enisa also aims to prepare a report for the European Commission
on what support micro-enterprises - those with fewer than 10
employees - need by way of infosecurity.
"Micro-enterprises account for a very large amount of business,
but they have very few sources of help and information about
infosecurity, and we believe they are vulnerable to attacks,"
Pirotti said.