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ARTICLE · 23 JUNE 2025

Horizon Scanner ICE: June 2025 - Digital Infrastructure

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ENISA has published a Handbook for Cyber Stress Tests. It has been developed as guidance for national or sectoral authorities overseeing cybersecurity and resilience of critical sectors, at national level, regional or EU level under NIS2 Directive (Directive (EU) 2022/2555).

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ENISA has published a Handbook for Cyber Stress Tests. It has been developed as guidance for national or sectoral authorities overseeing cybersecurity and resilience of critical sectors, at national level, regional or EU level under NIS2 Directive (Directive (EU) 2022/2555). (ENISA suggests it could also possibly be used for the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) or the Critical Entities Resilience (CER) Directive.)

According to ENISA, cyber stress tests are becoming a new lightweight and targeted mechanism for assessing critical sector resilience. The handbook will offer an insight into how cyber stress tests might be conducted by the National Cyber Security Centre.

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