Just 12% of European web users feel completely safe making online transactions: it is this kind of unease that the European Commission wants to tackle in its digital single market strategy (DSM) and it believes cyber security is key.
Although the broad topic of online safety covers many bases – not least in the slow-moving NIS directive – “reinforcing trust and security in digital services” plays a starring role in the DSM.
The European Commission’s Vice-President for the digital single…