The regulation of a cybersecurity reserve. A view from the European cybersolidarity regulation

Abstract

The new European Regulation on Cybersolidarity was approved on March 2024. As one of its main novelties is the introduction of a cybersecurity reserve, as a resource that, together with the European network of SOCs and managed security providers, must cooperate in the management of cybersecurity incidents of particular importance. This should reinforce the concept of a European cybersecurity shield, which is one of the priority objectives of the European Union for the coming years. This proposal will require specific design and development, which may be concluded with other individual proposals that may be put forward by other Member States, as in the case of France and its réserve citoyenne de cyberdéfense. In a similar vein, Spain proposed a cyber reserve project in 2021, which, in the absence of political approval, was resubmitted to the Defence Committee of the Congress of Deputies on 8 March 2024.