Europe's future increasingly depends on resilience. With the advance of digitalisation, not only is the importance of high-performance networks growing, but so too is the pressure to protect them against increasingly sophisticated attacks. Cybercrime – particularly in the form of DDoS attacks – no longer threatens only IT systems, but also the ability of business, government and society to function. Anyone who risks digital service outages risks competitiveness, innovative strength and trust in the digital infrastructure.

At least as relevant as the effective protection of central digital processes is their sovereignty. This includes the ability to operate critical systems on European soil, secure them with European partners and thus reduce central dependencies. This is precisely ...