"Supply Chain Compromise and Disinformation Rank High in EU's Top 10 Cyber Threats"

After engaging in an 8-month foresight exercise, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has identified and ranked the top cybersecurity threats expected to emerge by 2030. ENISA's top emerging cybersecurity threats include supply chain compromise of software dependencies, advanced disinformation campaigns, the rise of digital surveillance authoritarianism, human error and exploited legacy systems within cyber-physical ecosystems, targeted attacks enhanced by smart device data, a lack of analysis and control of space-based infrastructure and objects, and more. ENISA brainstormed in a Threat Identification Workshop with the help of the ENISA Foresight Expert Group, the CSIRTs Network, and EU CyCLONe experts to discover solutions to emerging challenges in the 2030 horizon. ENISA Executive Director Juhan Lepassaar stated that mitigating future risks cannot be delayed or avoided. This is why predicting the future is the best insurance policy. It is critical to take all preventative measures now to ensure that resilience is increased over time for a better cybersecurity landscape in 2030 and beyond. The exercise demonstrates that the threats identified and ranked are extremely diverse and include those that are most relevant today. However, ENISA states that today's threats will need to be addressed because their nature will have changed. The agency also observed that increased reliance and the widespread adoption of new technologies are important factors driving the changes. Such factors complicate the exercise and make understanding the threats even more difficult. This article continues to discuss ENISA's identification and ranking of the top 10 cybersecurity threats to emerge by 2030. 

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