EU Support to Western Balkans Cybersecurity Capacity Building

Project description

The overall objective of the project is to enhance the cyber resilience of the Western Balkan IPA III beneficiaries in compliance with EU acquis and best practices. The specific objective is improved cybersecurity prevention,preparedness and response of relevant public and private stakeholders in the Western Balkan IPA III beneficiaries. The project will consist of four components. CILC will implement the second component.

1. Cybersecurity governance and awareness: the activities in this component are aimed at strengthening organisational skills and mandates of public institutions on cybersecurity and improving capacities and mechanisms for cooperation.
2. Legal framework, cyber norms, and international law: the activities in this component are aimed at operationalising thw understanding of public institutions on EU acquisition related to cybersecurity, cyber norms and international law.
3. Risk and crisis management: the activities in this component are aimed at establishing and strengthening cyber risk and crisis management mechanisms.
4. Operational capacities: the activities in this component are aimed at increasing operational capacities of Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) in cyber incident management.