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Released 15 May 2025

Guidelines on civil-defence cybersecurity cooperation

Practical guidance for setting up and running joint civil-defence cyber activities.

What it is

A practical toolkit of guidelines and good practices to set up and run civilian-defence cybersecurity cooperation activities at organisation, national and European level, drawing on the lessons of the COcyber observatory.

Why it matters

Civil-defence cooperation in cybersecurity is often blocked not by policy but by the lack of usable templates: who signs what, what can and cannot be shared, how to run a joint exercise, how to handle classified outputs. The guidelines collect what works into checklists, role descriptions and reusable governance patterns, so organisations spending public money on coordination can build on a shared baseline rather than reinvent it each time.

Who is this for

National authorities
EU institutions
Industry & SMEs