Η ENISA έκανε πέρσυ ένα survey με θέμα τα μέτρα που λαμβάνουν οι service providers για την ασφάλεια και το spam. Το κείμενο σε μορφή PDF μπορείτε να το διαβάσετε εδώ:
Ενδιαφέροντα στοιχεία από τις 28 σελίδες του survey:
– “Providers in Europe are less concerned about outgoing emails, i.e. they are less concerned about their customers sending spam. They rely on legal instruments such as Terms and Conditions. In addition, to gain better information about legal consequences, enforcement could be further improved to prevent spam originating from Europe.”
– “Only the Finnish NRA* indicated that they issue recommendations or advice which describe technical safeguards in detail.”
Αυτή τη χρονική περίοδο η ENISA τρέχει ένα δεύτερο survey για να επικαιροποιήσει τα αποτελέσματα του πρώτου.
[via anti-spam-wg]
[*] – National Regulatory Authority
Managing organized complexity 
In the EU location is everything. ENISA should move out of Heraklion. Think of what great results we could expect from an Agency located in mainland Europe.
@Leonard:
I totally disagree. For organizations like ENISA, cyberspace location is critical. Heraklion is pretty well connected.
Therefore if you think that ENISA is ineffective somehow, it is not geographical location that is the problem.
I cannot imagine what are these “great results” that you expect ENISA could have delivered had it been based elsewhere in mainland Europe and does not [deliver] now being based in Heraklion.
Please elaborate.
@Leonard: EMEA is based in London, EFSA in Parma, OHIM in Alicante, Cedefop & EAR in Thessaloniki, and are all delivering their results according to the mandates of the EU council (whichever these are).
Location was never an issue in the EC. How do you explain a possible centralization of the EU Agencies in mainland Europe while the EC itself is trying to promote EU citizen mobility?
The vocation of ENISA is to network and disseminate results. You can do that better if you are based somewhere where things happen. You talk about cyberspace but you still go to conferences and trainings. Give it a minute; How is anyone going to visit a far away place that is badly connected to mainland Europe? I am told that it takes 11 hours to go from london to Heraklion via Athens.
Kreta is nice for vacation.
@Leonard
You are told wrong. Heraklion is 45 minutes to Athens and Athens is round 3 hours from London. Therefore it’s less than five hours if your flights are close enough…
@Leonard:
(Sorry for the late reply)
The vocation of ENISA is to network and disseminate results
ENISA can do this by organizing meetings and/or conferences throughout the whole of Europe. The RIPE meetings server as an example of my point. Even though RIPE is based in Amsterdam, its meetings take place all over the RIPE region and not just Amsterdam.
I am told that it takes 11 hours to go from london to Heraklion via Athens.
Which may or may not be true depending the circumstances and the company you choose to fly. It took me 11 hours to get from Athens to Tallinn via Frankfurt for the RIPE-54 meeting while on the other hand there was a direct flight from Heraklion to Tallinn at the same period (which I learned of while departing from Tallinn).
So if your concern is only about conferences and meetings the answer is simple: They should not be organized only in Heraklion, but all over Europe.