The EU’s legal approach to protecting critical infrastructure from state-sponsored cyberattacks : a comparative study of the UK, Italy and Bulgaria

Abstract

This thesis examines the EU’s legal approach to cybersecurity. It analyses the long road the EU has walked towards regulating cybersecurity and the challenges – both internal and external - it encountered along the way and which shaped its regulatory framework. It focuses on malicious state-sponsored cyber operations targeting the critical infrastructure (CI) sectors.