[FYI] Mr Erkki Liikanen on Internet security and privacy

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Mr Erkki Liikanen Member of the European Commission, responsible for 
Enterprise and the Information Society A Framework for Growth Baltic 
Sea Region e-Business Forum Riga, 28 September 2001  


                         DN: SPEECH/01/424     Date: 2001-10-01


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                         SPEECH/01/424 

                         Mr Erkki Liikanen 

Member of the European Commission, responsible for Enterprise and the 
Information Society  

A Framework for Growth  

Baltic Sea Region e-Business Forum  

Riga, 28 September 2001  

Ladies and gentlemen,  

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2. Privacy and security: confidence building  

People also need to feel secure. They need to trust that privacy is 
guaranteed on the Internet, and thus need a high level of security.  

Europe has already taken several initiatives in this respect:  

It has fully liberalised the trade of encryption technologies. These 
are key to securing confidentiality.  

It has also adopted legislation to ensure the lawfulness and mutual 
recognition of electronic signatures between EU countries. These are 
key to securing the integrity and authentication of electronic data.  

The Commission has also recently published a Communication on network 
and information security  

Let me highlight some of the policy proposals:  

We need  

to raise awareness public information and education campaigns should 
be launched and best practices should be promoted;  

a European warning and information system is needed to strengthen the 
activities of Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) or similar 
entities and improve the co-ordination amongst them;  

examine how to best organise at European level pro-active measures to 
develop forward-looking responses to existing and emerging security 
threats (e. g. an Information Security Observatory);  

concerning the legal framework we will set up an inventory of 
national measures, which have been taken in accordance with relevant 
Community law.  

Our objective is to table a comprehensive strategy on the security of 
electronic networks before the end of the year.  

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