Cybersecurity in Europe’s new reality: Resilience, sovereignty, and the need to recover fast
By Kim Larsen, Group CISO, Keepit
The most pressing cybersecurity threats today
Europe’s most pressing cybersecurity threat is not one single attack type, but the convergence of ransomware, supply chain compromise, and geopolitically motivated hybrid activity.
Hostile actors are increasingly pairing digital disruption with strategic pressure, using cyber operations to create uncertainty, interrupt services, and erode trust.
At the same time, AI is accelerating the speed and scale of attacks, helping adversaries automate reconnaissance, expose weak links, and sharpen phishing and impersonation campaigns. For businesses, the challenge is no longer only keeping attackers out; it is ensuring operations continue when incidents affect cloud services, third-party platforms, or critical infrastructure.
In Europe, where resilience and continuity are now deeply tied to regulation and sovereignty, recovery readiness has become as important as prevention.
Cybersecurity trends shaping the industry
Several trends are shaping the cybersecurity agenda in 2026. First, AI is transforming both offense and defense: attackers are becoming more adaptive, while defenders are using automation to improve visibility, anomaly detection, and prioritization.
Second, regulation is reshaping security strategy. Frameworks such as NIS2, DORA, GDPR, and the Cyber Resilience Act are forcing organizations to look beyond technical controls and address governance, accountability, and recovery.
Third, sovereignty has become a mainstream business issue. Keepit’s reporting on intelligent data governance and data sovereignty makes the point clearly: if organizations do not know where their data resides, which laws apply, and how it can be recovered independently, their risk assessments are incomplete.
For European businesses, these trends are pushing cybersecurity toward a broader resilience model grounded in control, compliance, and strategic autonomy.
How Keepit addresses cybersecurity challenges and opportunities
Keepit’s approach is built on a simple principle: prevention is essential, but resilience is proven through recovery. That means protecting SaaS data in an independent cloud, stored separately from production environments and designed for immutability and rapid restoration.
For European organizations in particular, this matters because resilience is increasingly tied to sovereignty.
With data centers in Europe, including Germany, Switzerland, and Denmark, and an architecture designed without third-party sub-processors, Keepit offers greater transparency, stronger control, and less dependence on global hyper-scalers when continuity is on the line.
It also reinforces Keepit’s broader view that data governance is foundational: organizations need to classify critical data, define recovery priorities, test restoration regularly, and ensure backup infrastructure is not dependent on the same ecosystem as the systems they are protecting.
Why Cybersec Europe matters
Cybersec Europe is an essential industry event because it brings together the people and perspectives Europe needs most right now: security leaders, policymakers, infrastructure providers, compliance experts, and practitioners.
The 2026 agenda puts digital sovereignty, resilience, supply chain risk, AI, and cyber warfare at the centre of the discussion—exactly the issues shaping Europe’s security posture today.
The conference is designed to combine strategic debate with practical lessons on infrastructure, regulation, recovery, and operational technology.
That is where in-person engagement still matters most. Cyber resilience is not built through isolated tools or abstract theory; it is built through shared experience, tested assumptions, and practical collaboration.
For exhibitors and attendees alike, Cybersec Europe offers a timely forum to discuss how Europe can strengthen control over critical data and build more resilient digital foundations.
As Europe’s threat landscape grows more complex, the focus is shifting from cybersecurity as protection alone to cybersecurity as resilience, recovery, and control. That is the right conversation for 2026 — and exactly why Cybersec Europe matters.
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