ENISA Publishes Threat Landscape Reports for
2020 On October 20, 2020, the European Union Agency for
Cybersecurity ( ENISA ) published a series of reports on the threat
landscape in 2020. The reports focused on, among other things,
malware, data breaches, ransomware attacks, information leakage,
and phishing attacks. The reports identified and evaluated the top
cybersecurity threats for the period of January 2019-April
2020.
ENISA Publishes Guidelines for Securing the IoT Supply
Chain On November 9, 2020, ENISA published guidelines on securing the supply
chain for the IoT. The guidelines address the entire lifespan of
IoT product development by offering security measures for each step
(i.e., requirements and design, end use delivery and maintenance,
February 1, 2021
For the third consecutive year, following the publication of Gibson Dunn’s ninth annual U.S. Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Outlook and Review on Data Privacy Day, we offer this separate International Outlook and Review.
Like many recent years, 2020 saw significant developments in the evolution of the data protection and cybersecurity landscape in the European Union (“
EU”):
CJEU” or “
Court”) struck down as legally invalid the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, on which some companies relied to transfer personal data from the EU to the U.S. While companies are turning to other frameworks to transfer personal data, such as Standard Contract Clauses (“