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CERT-EU
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Group: EU
Parent actor: European Union - European Commission (EC)
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About
CERT-EU is the Computer Emergency Response Team for the EU institutions, bodies and agencies. They are administratively hosted within the Directorate-General for Informatics of the European Commission, whilst playing an inter-institutional provider role, governed by a Steering Board that is currently chaired by the European Parliament, and serving all the EU institutions, bodies and agencies, located in the continent and beyond.
As a central cybersecurity cog of the EU, CERT-EU contributes to the security of the ICT infrastructure of 80+ constituents by helping them prevent, detect, mitigate and respond to cyberattacks, and by acting as the cybersecurity information exchange and incident response coordination hub for all of them. They offer a wide range of services to their constituents spanning prevention, detection, response and cyber threat intelligence.
