Foresight

ENISA's work on “Foresight on Emerging and Future Cybersecurity Challenges” falls into the Agency's 6th strategic objective which is to improve the EU’s cybersecurity resilience. This is done by increasing awareness of future threats and countermeasures amongst EU Member States and EUIBAs stakeholders. In meeting this objective, ENISA also supports its other 6 strategic objectives as it provides input on future threats and challenges.

To achieve this goal, ENISA has developed its own cybersecurity foresight methodological framework grounded in foresight research and future studies in 2021.  Created in collaboration with the Ad-Hoc Working Group that included futurists, sociologists, forecasters and foresight experts, this framework was also used in 2022 to identify threats and challenges likely to emerge by 2030 together with cybersecurity experts from MS and EUIBAs. You can find the report with the complete description of the 2022 foresight exercise here. The report was updated in 2024, and the executive summary is available here.