Public administration increasingly targeted by DDoS attacks

Because it ensures effective governance and delivery of important services to civil society such as education, healthcare, public transportation, etc.  public administration is a fundamental sector of the economy, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) writes.

However, being newly regulated under the NIS2 Directive, the sector is still developing its cybersecurity resilience as it remains in the early stages of aligning with the requirements. Public administration was therefore assessed as standing in the “risk zone” in the study published in the ENISA NIS360 report. With 38% of all incidents in the latest ENISA cyber threat landscape report, public administration reportedly is the most targeted sector in the EU.

The new analysis offers an overview of 586 publicly reported cyber incidents that occurred in the course of 2024.  

Read more at ENISA