Comment Neelie (Kroes)

[...] What is this initiative about? Digital products and services must resist cyber-attacks: only then can they achieve their value, economically and socially. You need to know and trust who you are talking to, and that your communications are secure and protected. With a secure 'communication backbone' across the industrial value chain. To achieve this, a Strategy Advisory group will develop and industrial strategy. for a stronger ICT security industry in Europe. It should add value, and could launch European industry as a powerful player in the future, forward-looking connected world, while safeguarding fundamental rights. And I invite Reinhard Ploss to share some of his ideas with us in the panel session.